Training Exercise Done In Complete Radio Silence
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Silent Flight Makes 'Boom' In Refueling Mission
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That must be hard.
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Standard training procedure
This a normal training procedure.
In a combat theater of operation tankers maintain radio silence during refueling ops as to not give away the position since they would be slow moving targets. Since they are slow and do not have the capability to do a high speed dash to get away to save there hids.
Refueling tracks are usually kept outside the area of combat, but sometimes a tanker will dash in to service fighters that are running below BINGO fuel, especialy if they are doing a job like supporting a (ResCap) rescue mission of a downed pilot, supporting a ground unit in a hairy situation, etc. Rare, but it has happened .This happened for example during the Gulf War I and II. A few tanker pilots elected to fly over the border into Iraq and do just that.
The tankers have a light system on there under side that helps direct the refueling a/c in getting into postion. That's why they train in silence just for is wartime possibility.
This a normal training procedure.
In a combat theater of operation tankers maintain radio silence during refueling ops as to not give away the position since they would be slow moving targets. Since they are slow and do not have the capability to do a high speed dash to get away to save there hids.
Refueling tracks are usually kept outside the area of combat, but sometimes a tanker will dash in to service fighters that are running below BINGO fuel, especialy if they are doing a job like supporting a (ResCap) rescue mission of a downed pilot, supporting a ground unit in a hairy situation, etc. Rare, but it has happened .This happened for example during the Gulf War I and II. A few tanker pilots elected to fly over the border into Iraq and do just that.
The tankers have a light system on there under side that helps direct the refueling a/c in getting into postion. That's why they train in silence just for is wartime possibility.
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