The Aircraft That Is The US Air Force’s Top Choice For Aerial Refueling

While much is said about how many fighter jets a country has, those jets have little ability to project power more than a few hundred miles from their forward operating bases without aerial refueling. There are two types of aerial refueling: probe and drogue and flying boom. The flying boom method uses a rigid, telescoping tube for faster fuel transfer and is the most relevant to this article.