{"id":414453,"date":"2026-04-26T22:02:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T12:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/nine-usaf-tankers-gibralter-gap-middle-east\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T22:02:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T12:02:39","slug":"refueling-armada-9-usaf-tankers-fly-through-gibraltar-gap-toward-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=414453","title":{"rendered":"Refueling Armada: 9 USAF Tankers Fly Through Gibraltar Gap Toward Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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> (USAF) is sending a significant reinforcement to the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"32947\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/middle-east\/\"  >Middle East<\/a><\/span> by flying nine aerial refueling tankers through the narrow gap of the Strait of Gibraltar. These aircraft were tracked and were flying as three separate groups, after a stopover in the Azores, to the Middle East, carefully avoiding the Spanish airspace when transiting the narrow Strait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Air Force deploys nine KC-46A aerial refueling tankers to the Middle East to reinforce the assets already in the region.<\/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":[19759,396,398,11221,1695,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2026-iran-crisis","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-kc-46-pegasus","category-middle-east","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414453","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=414453"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414462,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414453\/revisions\/414462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}