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Aerial Refueling Initiative: Cross-Service Analysis Needed To Determine Best Approach

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date July 19, 1993
Report No. NSIAD-93-186
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Summary:

This report examines the performance of the air refueling tanker force during Operation Desert Storm. GAO analyzes (1) the relevance, in light of that wartime experience, of a 1990 initiative to boost tanker efficiency, effectiveness, and interoperability and (2) the adequacy of the Defense Department's assessment of the initiative, which basically called for standardizing Air Force refueling equipment for tankers and fighters on the refueling system used by the other services and many U.S. allies. The tanker modifications would also allow two fighters to refuel simultaneously, a capability known as multipoint.

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