The Warner Robins Air Logistics Center gathered a team of contractors to answer a distress call from Air Force Special Operations Command. AFSOC needed more C-130 aircraft to refuel its combat search and rescue and special ops helicopters—right now. According to the Macon Telegraph, the ALC at Robins AFB, Ga., will turn over the first newly modified C-130—a 40,000-man hour project—within two months. Last week, the ALC team ran a successful power up.
The Air Force’s nascent KC-Z program, aimed at developing a next-generation family of systems for aerial refueling, will look to launch its analysis-of-alternatives study in 2024, years earlier than originally planned. Originally, the analysis of alternatives for KC-Z was set for “maybe in the 2030s,” Paul Waugh, program executive officer…