{"id":160554,"date":"2024-12-22T23:00:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/kc-97-kc-46-brief-history-us-air-force-tankers\/"},"modified":"2024-12-22T23:00:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T13:00:16","slug":"from-kc-97-to-kc-46-a-brief-history-of-us-air-force-tankers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=160554","title":{"rendered":"From KC-97 To KC-46: A Brief History Of US Air Force Tankers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While advanced fighter jets like the F-22 Raptor, the F-35 Lightning II, and the F-15 Strike Eagle may garner a lot of attention, these are little more than paperweights if they don&#8217;t have fuel. One of the great pillars of the US Air Force&#8217;s ability to project power around the world is its massive fleet of aerial tankers (the Air Force operates the two         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2028017\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/top-tanker-aircraft-list\/\" >most common tankers in the world<\/a><\/span>). Tankers massively         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2032491\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/aerial-refueling-operations-how-us-military-extends-fighter-jet-range\/\" >extend the range fighter jets can operate and the amount of time they can spend over an area of interest<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first tanker was propeller-driven and today they are based on airliners (the Boeing 707 and 767), but this is soon set to change.<\/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":[396,11221,412,7559,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-kc-46-pegasus","category-military","category-tanker","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\/160554","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=160554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160555,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160554\/revisions\/160555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}