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2025-07-18 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

USAF Denies It Refueled Israel's Fighters During War With Iran

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-07-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [185 views ] Top

#1 Given the requirement to bomb Iran once in a while, one would expect the Israeli Air Force to have enough tanking capacity to get their strikers there and back without external help.

Posted by SteveS 2025-07-18 00:18|| 2025-07-18 00:18|| Front Page Top

#2 I remember reading somewhere that Israel has a butch of KC-46A tankers of their own, so no need for USA tanker supports.

Israel also have KC-130/133 tankers as well as some older KC-707 Tankers plus a few other custom modified into tankers.

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2025-07-18 01:23|| 2025-07-18 01:23|| Front Page Top

#3 KC-137, not Kc-133, sorry

The Kc-707 (instead of "KC-137) were actual cilvian Boeing 707 modified into "KC-707 bu the Israel Air Force.

the KC-130 is an entirely different airframs based on the c-130 Hercules/

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2025-07-18 01:38|| 2025-07-18 01:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Israel has KC-46s on order but not yet delivered

Posted by TZSenator 2025-07-18 07:15|| 2025-07-18 07:15|| Front Page Top

#5 The USAF did not refuel Israeli fighters.
They didn't say anything about refueling their refuelers, tho...

Posted by ed in texas 2025-07-18 08:39|| 2025-07-18 08:39|| Front Page Top

#6 They didn't say anything about refueling their refuelers, tho...

Ah, the Lawyerly Denial. That is a valid point!

Posted by SteveS 2025-07-18 09:36|| 2025-07-18 09:36|| Front Page Top

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