USAF Delays Closing KC-46 Remote Vision System PDR

Brian Everstine January 10, 2022
RVS
The KC-46’s Remote Vision System, which the boom operator uses to refuel receiving aircraft, is being overhauled to address multiple deficiencies.
Credit: Boeing
The plan to fix the KC-46’s troubled Remote Vision System (RVS) is delayed as the U.S. Air Force and Boeing try to work through a longstanding issue with the aircraft’s panoramic visual system—how it meshes together a system of cameras to detect incoming receiver aircraft—as well as the quality of...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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