On most days, there's usually only 2 to 3 KC-10s or KC-135s in the air at this time of night.
Of the 31 Trackable Military Aircraft over CONUS, 12 are air refueling birds. An E-8 Joint STARS shut it's transponder off a few minutes ago while flying westward.
4 of the refuelers seem to be headed to the same area off of San Fran (pic related), suggesting they are refueling a lot of aircraft for some reason.
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Wow.....it's almost like it's routine training.
Even during training, you rarely see 11-12 reuelers in the air. One KC-135 can refuel an entire squadron.
So, they're ferrying west? A lot of them?
Don't know. Just very high refueler activity tonight.
how could it be training if they're air refueling while flying over their own airfields??
Maybe they are refueling now before gas prices go up again?
> An E-8 Joint STARS shut it's transponder off a few minutes ago while flying westward
I wish I had screencapped when I still had it on the map. If some Mercurys and Nightwatch go up, then I'll be very interested.
Thanks for posting
>Not spotted on the Radar but also heading West
Great, now Sup Forums has it's own recon intelligence network.
Keep up the good work
I was in a KC135 refuelling F4s(dated, I know) over the gulf of mexico. Probably gassed up 8 or so, it was a long time ago.
So that's a lot of planes they're refueling
What anchor?
They can't find the sub boys. Or maybe one of the pilots is redpilled and knows they have to let the nuke hit liberal California.
dunno what that means, I was in ROTC in college and got to do this training thing. We flew out of central Texas.
I'm Finnish diaspora so my autism is way up there.
I'm under the impression a KC-135 holds enough fuel for at least a squadron of fighters and roughly a flight of heavy bombers.
Is this a correct assumption?
Designated airspace for refueling tracks. Tracks are the race track flight path of the refueling aircraft. American tracks are coded as Anchors
oh, I'm sure a google search would tell you more than I know. I was just throwing in some first hand experience cuz it's slightly unusual.
I can't remember how many got refueled, but it seemed like a lot. Had to be careful not to kill the guy in the F4 backseat when they were hooking up so he would have his head on a swivel when they were doing that.
>the seat they lay down on to operate that thing was comfy AF, desu
that north korean sub is probably sitting down there with a bunch of asphyxiated koreans in it
Depends on the load of the a/c and how many pounds of fuel the aircraft have. Fighters might typically hit a Refuel track shortly after takeoff to replace fuel expended during takeoff if carrying a heavy payload.
They're fueling C-130s off the coast of California right now.
Right, I knew carrier aircraft had to and B-52s on ancient SAC alerts would also refuel right after takeoff. I always just assumed fighters would do the same thing.
There's a Joint STARS over Colorado now.
>Tensions rise to a critical level with a country threatening to nuke us across the Pacific
>woah guys there's a larger military presence on the west coast
I hope that sub nukes you first.
me too desu
And they are in 633 refueling track. Nothing out of the ordinary.
like it even matters north korea is gonna launch 5 billion nukes
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2 hours ago it was 5 million. Jesus, these guys build nukes faster than Latvian supermarkets can collapse.
It's more aircraft than normal at this time of night.
>now
spotted the newfag
anyone know what happened to most of the refuelers there are only 2 still up with transponder on
They kinda just "poofed."
b52 are probably never on the system ar4e tracked right? they wouldnt put public transponders on b52s right?
Why u always snitchin on the military? Shhh nigga they gonna see we comin for em.
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Combat aircraft are never on this site. I see U-28s and even the E-6 and E-4 Doomsday planes, but never a Viper or Eagle or Hornet.
I ain't spilling anything classified. It's public info.
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im thinking we should you know tell them beforehand
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Bump. Shilling shills are shilling hard tonight
Gas is cheap now. Maybe the air force is like "fuck it"
should i tell north koreas twitter via the boxer special nuke rush???
i think it would be funny to tell them
why would they be refueling over California? nothing happening there, unless maybe they are planning to bomb the shit out of SJW's at Berkeley tomorrow.
>GUCCI32
What is this? A crew of frat boys?
Gogogogo it's the only chance to make a happening truly worthwhile to watch
Or possibly starts a happening
Either way win/win
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I didn't even pay attention to that, heh.
84-0185 has done his duty and is heading home. No idea what he refueled.
something is going .... they just released a video of the minuteman strike test
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