波音KC-46加油机终于通过了国防部重要节点的核准

WASHINGTON: After more than a decade of missteps by the Pentagon, the Air Force and Boeing, the airborne tanker program today took a major step forward as the KC-46 passed Milestone C.
华盛顿消息：经过十多年的折腾，KC-46加油机项目今天通过了重大节点：里程碑C。
“The KC-46 is ready to take the next step,” Gen. Dave Goldfein, Air Force Chief of Staff, says in a statement announcing the approval of Low Rate Initial Production. “Our Air Force and Boeing team stepped up to meet the recent challenges.”

This means the first two Low Rate Initial Production lots for 19 planes will be announced within the next 30 days. The deal, including parts, is worth $2.8 billion.  Some 18 planes are set for delivery by early 2018.
通过里程碑C后，波音将获得前两批次的低速量产合同19架，总价28亿。
“The KC-46 program has made significant strides in moving the Air Force toward the modernization needed in our strategic tanker fleet,” Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James says in a statement.
空军部长迪波拉说，KC46获得了显著进展。
Boeing had to refuel an F-16, C-17, and A-10 using the boom, and and a Harrier and F/A-18 using both the hose and drogue systems. The KC-46 also got refueled by a KC-10.
为达到节点，波音必须给F16 C17 A-10进行加油测试，并被KC-10成功加油。

After a host of problems, the tanker most recently had trouble refueling C-17s because of high axial loads. Just before the Farnborough Air Show, Boeing installed hydraulic pressure relief valves to lighten the pressure. Test proved the system worked and Frank Kendall, undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics OK’d Milestone C after reviewing all the data.
之前测试中，KC46给C17加油遇到麻烦，后通过安装一个减压部件解决了问题
Next up? Federal Aviation Administration and military certification flight testing.
下一步，波音将通过FAA许可及军事飞行许可
消息来源：
http://breakingdefense.com/2016/ ... -milestone-finally/WASHINGTON: After more than a decade of missteps by the Pentagon, the Air Force and Boeing, the airborne tanker program today took a major step forward as the KC-46 passed Milestone C.
华盛顿消息：经过十多年的折腾，KC-46加油机项目今天通过了重大节点：里程碑C。
“The KC-46 is ready to take the next step,” Gen. Dave Goldfein, Air Force Chief of Staff, says in a statement announcing the approval of Low Rate Initial Production. “Our Air Force and Boeing team stepped up to meet the recent challenges.”

This means the first two Low Rate Initial Production lots for 19 planes will be announced within the next 30 days. The deal, including parts, is worth $2.8 billion.  Some 18 planes are set for delivery by early 2018.
通过里程碑C后，波音将获得前两批次的低速量产合同19架，总价28亿。
“The KC-46 program has made significant strides in moving the Air Force toward the modernization needed in our strategic tanker fleet,” Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James says in a statement.
空军部长迪波拉说，KC46获得了显著进展。
Boeing had to refuel an F-16, C-17, and A-10 using the boom, and and a Harrier and F/A-18 using both the hose and drogue systems. The KC-46 also got refueled by a KC-10.
为达到节点，波音必须给F16 C17 A-10进行加油测试，并被KC-10成功加油。

After a host of problems, the tanker most recently had trouble refueling C-17s because of high axial loads. Just before the Farnborough Air Show, Boeing installed hydraulic pressure relief valves to lighten the pressure. Test proved the system worked and Frank Kendall, undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics OK’d Milestone C after reviewing all the data.
之前测试中，KC46给C17加油遇到麻烦，后通过安装一个减压部件解决了问题
Next up? Federal Aviation Administration and military certification flight testing.
下一步，波音将通过FAA许可及军事飞行许可
消息来源：
http://breakingdefense.com/2016/ ... -milestone-finally/