Air Force (Air Force) The United States almost simultaneously lifted 20 KC-135 Stratotanker tanker aircraft into the air, reports The Drive.
The planes took off from Fairchild Base in northeast Washington. The publication notes that in the air, the KC-135 Stratotanker was divided into four groups and headed in different directions.
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According to Captain Caitlin Holmes, the purpose of the exercise was to test the operational capabilities of launching several aircraft with minimal time intervals between each takeoff.
In September, the US Air Force and the American corporation Lockheed Martin showed on YouTube a video of tests of C-17A Globemaster III and EC-130J Super J aircraft dropping pallets with AGM-158B Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range (JASSM-ER) cruise stealth missiles.
Ivan Potapov