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Into the blue (An F-16 Fighting Falcon is refueled by a KC-135 Stratotanker)

Into the blue (An F-16 Fighting Falcon is refueled by a KC-135 Stratotanker)

An F-16 Fighting Falcon is refueled by a KC-135 Stratotanker Nov. 9, 2011, over Iraq.

KC-135 Stratotankers from the 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron provide approximately 200,000 pounds of fuel each day to aerial assets in Iraq.


Source: 12 February 2012 -  Media Gallery / Photo News (www.af.mil)

Photo: U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon is refueled (Photo by af.mil  / U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Cecilio Ricardo)


(12.02.2012)


 
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