Most of the Blk Is had service life limited structure(s) and have been parked against a fence somewhere for a long time.
I believe one estimate placed the cost of SH SLEP at $2-5M per 300 hours of extension; that’s an additional 20-50M per 3k per aircraft. A downright bargain... But oh, that doesn’t include the cost of any capability enhancements.
And I wonder how the durability testing is going for carriage of the conformals? Of course, there won’t be any discovery in that testing will there...
Anyone seen or heard of any of those new Boeing tankers in service?
