Lockheed Martin withdraws bid to produce new USAF aerial tanker

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Source: Lockheed Martin

The military airframer’s withdrawal from the US Air Force’s tanker-fleet recapitalisation effort makes it all but certain the service will opt to procure more KC-46 refuellers from Boeing.

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