Nah, that exercise only involves a handful of KC-135s. We’re seeing 30+ KC-46 Pegasus and KC-135 Stratotankers being strategically redeployed. This is something else.
We were also running transponders on tankers even when they were refueling aircraft around Ukraine (albeit in friendly airspace).
The refuelled aircraft (at least some of which were F-35s, if not all, as someone geolocated a picture during the conflict) were not running transponders, though (and in the case of the picture of the F-35, had the radar reflectors removed).
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Nah, that exercise only involves a handful of KC-135s. We’re seeing 30+ KC-46 Pegasus and KC-135 Stratotankers being strategically redeployed. This is something else.
We were also running transponders on tankers even when they were refueling aircraft around Ukraine (albeit in friendly airspace).
The refuelled aircraft (at least some of which were F-35s, if not all, as someone geolocated a picture during the conflict) were not running transponders, though (and in the case of the picture of the F-35, had the radar reflectors removed).