Posted on: Mar. 10th, 2006 || aimpoints.hq.af.mil
![Mar. 10th, 2006 - More C-17s may be bought; tanker/transport planes needed now](../../news/images/c17.jpg)
The adjustment might be made in the budget for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2008.The number of extra C-17s is likely to be modest, perhaps on the order of 10 planes, England later told Defense Today.
The Air Force is unlikely to drop or reduce a program to modernize C-5 transport planes in favor of buying still more C-17 transports from the Boeing Co., England told key senators.Gen. Michael Moseley, Air Force chief of staff, had mentioned such a C-17/C-5 tradeoff.Rather, the Air Force should move quickly to procure new aerial refueling tanker planes that also would provide transport capabilities, England told the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC).
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