Senator, the thing I can speak to for sure is that the fleet is aging 30 plus years on average. Some of the platforms, some of the critical platforms are significantly older than that. When I was a navigator, I never flew a KC135 that was younger than me. They're still flying today. in one of the mainline air refueling platforms the department has. So they are definitely getting old. Still a very capable platform, but they're definitely, definitely aging. (02:42–02:49)
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