{"id":151731,"date":"2024-11-25T21:45:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T11:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-are-military-aircraft-refueled-in-air\/"},"modified":"2024-11-25T21:45:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T11:45:13","slug":"how-are-military-aircraft-refueled-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=151731","title":{"rendered":"How Are Military Aircraft Refueled In The Air?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"265048\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/aerial-refueling\/\"  >Aerial refueling<\/a><\/span> is one of the principal reasons why the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> can project power around the world.         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2033943\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/worlds-5-largest-tanker-aircraft-fleets\/\" >The US Air Force possesses around 75% of the world&#8217;s aerial tanker refueling fleet<\/a><\/span>, enabling its aircraft to operate deeper and further than any other air force. Aerial refueling is so important that         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2027117\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-new-stealthy-tanker\/\" >the Air Force is currently designing a revolutionary stealth tanker<\/a><\/span> so that it will be able to operate closer into contested airspace in future conflicts. But how does aerial refueling work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two main methods of aerial refueling, and both are extensively used by the United States military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4259,396,567,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerial-refueling","category-aircraft","category-guides","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151732,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151731\/revisions\/151732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}