> Taken in sum, virtually everything about the Pegasus has been a trainwreck, and you can see muted signals that virtually everyone is quietly searching for an alternative fleet.

And yet they are still favoured to win the KC-Y competition (the successor to the KC-X, which picked Boeing's KC-46A as the winner) either (a) by default since Lockheed Martin has left competition (with Airbus saying they're going it alone), or (b) the USAF just cancelling the competition and ordering more KC-46As.

(a) https://breakingdefense.com/2023/10/lmxt-exit-lockheed-to-sk...

(b) https://breakingdefense.com/2023/03/air-force-leans-towards-...

Meanwhile Canada (which all sort of issues with military procurement themselves) found that Airbus was the only qualified bidder for their tanker replacement program and picked the A330 MRTT (of which deliveries have already begun).