It’d be a gorgeous picture, if it weren’t for those damn Squids stealing Air Force gas.
A Navy F/A-18 Hornet fighter receives fuel from a KC-10 Extender over Afghanistan. On Sept. 15, coalition tankers flew 46 sorties and off-loaded approximately 2.4 million pounds of fuel to 210 receiving aircraft. (DOD photo/Navy Lt. Peter Scheu)
You really should click through for the full size.
If the Navy would quit using the drouge and hose refueling method, they could unload twice as much gas.
The KC-10 is getting a litle old, maybe we will start getting some new 767 tankers soon. Has anyone heard how that fight is going? Airbus vs. Boeing.
Nice pic of a Hornet.
Question of the day: which carrier and squadron?
And the Navy will keep the hose and drogue method. It is needed for organic tanking, i.e., the S-3 and the F/A-18E/F Superhornet…
VFA-136 “Knighthawks”
CVW-1 on board USS Enterprise (CV-65).
Dang, Joel, that was quick!
Good job!
Saw those guys do a lot of good work up close and personal last month…
Hey, I may be a grunt… but, dammit, I know my Naval Air….
That and a quick glance over at globalsecurity.org…
Oh, BTW, minor correction.
The hull number is CVN65…8 reactors and all.
A typo, sir… mere typo I assure you.
On the other hand, are there ANY oil-fired carriers left?