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    Aerial refueling, also referred to as air refueling, in-flight refueling (IFR), air-to-air refueling (AAR), and tanking, is the process of transferring...
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    Omega Aerial Refueling Services Incorporated is an American aviation company that provides aerial refueling services for military customers. Omega developed...
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    The Boeing MQ-25 Stingray is an aerial refueling drone that resulted from the Carrier-Based Aerial-Refueling System (CBARS) program, which grew out of...
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    Buddy refuelling. Flying boom refuelling. Flying boom refuelling at night. "Aerial Refueling". www.CentennialOfFlight.gov. U.S. Centennial of Flight...
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    Boeing KC-46 Pegasus (category Air refueling)
    The Boeing KC-46 Pegasus is an American military aerial refueling and strategic military transport aircraft developed by Boeing from its 767 jet airliner...
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    Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker (category Air refueling)
    The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker is an American military aerial refueling tanker aircraft that was developed from the Boeing 367-80 prototype, alongside...
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    Ил-78; NATO reporting name Midas) is a Soviet/Russian four-engined aerial refueling tanker based on the Il-76 strategic airlifter. The Soviet Union's first...
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    McDonnell Douglas KC-10 Extender (category Air refueling)
    established Air Mobility Command. In the aerial refueling role, the KC-10s have been operated largely in the strategic refueling of large number of tactical aircraft...
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    The Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) is a European aerial refuelling and military transport aircraft based on the civilian Airbus A330....
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  • The following is a list of United States military aerial refueling aircraft HC-130 KC-10 KC-130 KC-130J KC-135 F/A-18E/F KC-46 MQ-25 KA-3 KA-6D KB-29 KB-50...
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    Lockheed Martin KC-130 (category Air refueling)
    ordered. It replaced older KC-130F, KC-130R, and KC-130T variants for aerial refueling. USMC reserve unit, VMGR-452 operated 12 KC-130T aircraft until May...
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    scientific research support, weather reconnaissance, aerial refueling, maritime patrol, and aerial firefighting. It is now the main tactical airlifter...
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    The Boeing KC-767 is a military aerial refueling tanker and transport aircraft developed from the Boeing 767-200ER. The tanker received the designation...
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  • Automated aerial refueling (AAR) refers to methods for autonomous refueling of manned and unmanned aircraft. An Air Force Research Laboratory program...
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    well as autonomous inflight refueling with a probe and drogue. In November 2011, the Navy announced that aerial refuelling equipment and software would...
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  • EADS/Northrop Grumman KC-45 (category Air refueling)
    The EADS/Northrop Grumman KC-45 was a proposed aerial refueling tanker aircraft based on the Airbus A330 MRTT. The United States Air Force (USAF) had ordered...
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  • This is an organized list of all of the active aircraft squadrons that currently exist in the Indian Air Force. Squadrons might have changed names and...
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    "Have you ever seen a 757 air to air refuel? YOU HAVE NOW!". Aviation Intel. Retrieved July 16, 2021. "Aerial Refueling - Fixed Wing Receivers - PART 5, ANNEX...
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    and other aircraft to carry airborne forces such as paratroopers; aerial refueling tankers to extend operation time or range; and military transport aircraft...
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    2018 A C-146A Wolfhound taking off A KC-10 Extender with the 76th Air Refueling Squadron A C-17A Globemaster III taking off from Ramstein Air Base A VC-25...
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    SAC refined aerial refueling to a fine art. SAC's in-flight refueling mission began in July 1952 when its 31st Fighter-Escort Wing refueled sixty F-84G...
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  • motor vehicles Refueling and Overhaul in the United States Navy Reactor refueling Aerial refueling Bunkering, the refueling of ships Refueling aircraft at...
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  • a deal to lease two and purchase seven Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker aerial refueling tanker aircraft. Following the arrival of all seven purchased aircraft...
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    Omega Aerial Refueling Services Flight 70 was a flight supposed to provide aerial refueling to US Navy F/A-18 fighter jets. It crashed on take-off following...
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    In addition to its transport capabilities, the A400M can perform aerial refueling and medical evacuation when fitted with appropriate equipment. The...
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    to do aerial refuelling 8 times during the process, or like Fereydoun Ali Mazandarani, who holds the record for being the first pilot to do aerial refuelling...
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    aircraft to another during flight (known as aerial refueling, air refueling, in-flight refueling, air-to-air refueling, and tanking). The name boom operator...
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    News, February 18, 2016. Retrieved 2017-02-14 "Brazilian Helicopter Aerial Refueling Ready". Helis.com. "FAB coloca para rodar sistema de última geração...
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    force of KC-135 Stratotanker and KC-10 Extender aerial refueling aircraft, the latter air refueling aircraft having been freed from their strategic nuclear...
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    and strike fighters, even at intercontinental range, with the use of aerial refueling, so any nation possessing this combination of equipment and techniques...
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