# USAF should buy newly designed air refuelers to meet China threat: Report

- Source: Breaking Defense
- Published: 2026-10-27T12:00:00+00:00
- Category: World
- Original: https://breakingdefense.com/2026/10/usaf-should-buy-newly-designed-air-refuelers-to-meet-china-threat-report/
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Although there’s a “temptation” to keep buying KC-46s, a plan to procure 75 more of the Boeing-made tankers should be an “upper limit” followed by a new, longer range tanker, the Hudson Institute’s Timothy Walton told Breaking Defense.

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