Lockheed Martin plans to offer the LMXT for the US Air Force's KC-Y tanker programme. The LMXT is based on the Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport. (Lockheed Martin photo by Brandon Stoker)

A Lockheed Martin-led team will build its proposed LMXT aerial refuelling aircraft in Alabama and Georgia if it wins the US Air Force (USAF) KC-Y tanker competition, the US defence contractor announced on 31 January.

The LMXT, which Lockheed Martin first unveiled in September 2021, would be a USAF version of the existing Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT). The basic “green” aircraft would be produced at a new factory at Airbus' commercial airliner assembly site in Mobile, Alabama. It would then be modified into a tanker at Lockheed Martin's former C-5 transport upgrade plant in Marietta, Georgia.

Lockheed Martin's team would initially build a “very tiny fraction” of the LMXTs at existing Airbus facilities in Toulouse, France, and Getafe, Spain, before moving the work to the US, said Larry Gallogly, the LMXT programme director at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. This would enable the US workforce to be trained at the European sites.

Lockheed Martin plans to offer the LMXT for the US Air Force's KC-Y tanker programme. The LMXT is based on the Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport. (Lockheed Martin photo by Brandon Stoker)

A Lockheed Martin-led team will build its proposed LMXT aerial refuelling aircraft in Alabama and Georgia if it wins the US Air Force (USAF) KC-Y tanker competition, the US defence contractor announced on 31 January.

The LMXT, which Lockheed Martin first unveiled in September 2021, would be a USAF version of the existing Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT). The basic “green” aircraft would be produced at a new factory at Airbus' commercial airliner assembly site in Mobile, Alabama. It would then be modified into a tanker at Lockheed Martin's former C-5 transport upgrade plant in Marietta, Georgia.

Lockheed Martin's team would initially build a “very tiny fraction” of the LMXTs at existing Airbus facilities in Toulouse, France, and Getafe, Spain, before moving the work to the US, said Larry Gallogly, the LMXT programme director at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. This would enable the US workforce to be trained at the European sites.

Lockheed Martin plans to offer the LMXT for the US Air Force's KC-Y tanker programme. The LMXT is based on the Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport. (Lockheed Martin photo by Brandon Stoker)

A Lockheed Martin-led team will build its proposed LMXT aerial refuelling aircraft in Alabama and Georgia if it wins the US Air Force (USAF) KC-Y tanker competition, the US defence contractor announced on 31 January.

The LMXT, which Lockheed Martin first unveiled in September 2021, would be a USAF version of the existing Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT). The basic “green” aircraft would be produced at a new factory at Airbus' commercial airliner assembly site in Mobile, Alabama. It would then be modified into a tanker at Lockheed Martin's former C-5 transport upgrade plant in Marietta, Georgia.

Lockheed Martin's team would initially build a “very tiny fraction” of the LMXTs at existing Airbus facilities in Toulouse, France, and Getafe, Spain, before moving the work to the US, said Larry Gallogly, the LMXT programme director at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. This would enable the US workforce to be trained at the European sites.

Lockheed Martin plans to offer the LMXT for the US Air Force's KC-Y tanker programme. The LMXT is based on the Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport. (Lockheed Martin photo by Brandon Stoker)

A Lockheed Martin-led team will build its proposed LMXT aerial refuelling aircraft in Alabama and Georgia if it wins the US Air Force (USAF) KC-Y tanker competition, the US defence contractor announced on 31 January.

The LMXT, which Lockheed Martin first unveiled in September 2021, would be a USAF version of the existing Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT). The basic “green” aircraft would be produced at a new factory at Airbus' commercial airliner assembly site in Mobile, Alabama. It would then be modified into a tanker at Lockheed Martin's former C-5 transport upgrade plant in Marietta, Georgia.

Lockheed Martin's team would initially build a “very tiny fraction” of the LMXTs at existing Airbus facilities in Toulouse, France, and Getafe, Spain, before moving the work to the US, said Larry Gallogly, the LMXT programme director at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. This would enable the US workforce to be trained at the European sites.

Lockheed Martin plans to offer the LMXT for the US Air Force's KC-Y tanker programme. The LMXT is based on the Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport. (Lockheed Martin photo by Brandon Stoker)

A Lockheed Martin-led team will build its proposed LMXT aerial refuelling aircraft in Alabama and Georgia if it wins the US Air Force (USAF) KC-Y tanker competition, the US defence contractor announced on 31 January.

The LMXT, which Lockheed Martin first unveiled in September 2021, would be a USAF version of the existing Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT). The basic “green” aircraft would be produced at a new factory at Airbus' commercial airliner assembly site in Mobile, Alabama. It would then be modified into a tanker at Lockheed Martin's former C-5 transport upgrade plant in Marietta, Georgia.

Lockheed Martin's team would initially build a “very tiny fraction” of the LMXTs at existing Airbus facilities in Toulouse, France, and Getafe, Spain, before moving the work to the US, said Larry Gallogly, the LMXT programme director at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. This would enable the US workforce to be trained at the European sites.

Lockheed Martin plans to offer the LMXT for the US Air Force's KC-Y tanker programme. The LMXT is based on the Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport. (Lockheed Martin photo by Brandon Stoker)

A Lockheed Martin-led team will build its proposed LMXT aerial refuelling aircraft in Alabama and Georgia if it wins the US Air Force (USAF) KC-Y tanker competition, the US defence contractor announced on 31 January.

The LMXT, which Lockheed Martin first unveiled in September 2021, would be a USAF version of the existing Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT). The basic “green” aircraft would be produced at a new factory at Airbus' commercial airliner assembly site in Mobile, Alabama. It would then be modified into a tanker at Lockheed Martin's former C-5 transport upgrade plant in Marietta, Georgia.

Lockheed Martin's team would initially build a “very tiny fraction” of the LMXTs at existing Airbus facilities in Toulouse, France, and Getafe, Spain, before moving the work to the US, said Larry Gallogly, the LMXT programme director at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. This would enable the US workforce to be trained at the European sites.