'I actually don't care': Congress has an idea for the Air Force's next tanker, but the head of the Air Force has something else in mind

US Air Force/Master Sgt Michael Jackson

• The US Air Force got its long-awaited KC-46 tanker this month.
• But Congress and military planners are already looking ahead to the next kind of tanker.
• The next thing may not be a single platform, the Air Force chief of staff said this weekend.

On January 25, officials from Boeing and the Air Force gathered at Everett Field in Washington state to see off the first two KC-46 Pegasus tankers, celebrating with specially made cookies and classic rock.

When the tankers landed at McConnell Air Force Base in Kansas for delivery to the Air Force, it was the culmination of two decades of work, coming after two years of delays and more than $3 billion in penalties incurred by Boeing.

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