#aerial refueling

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Nightscape….

          [WARNING: This is not a video game.]

OVER THE MIDDLE EAST (November 1, 2020) – A United States Air ForceF-16 Fighting Falcon makes its approach for an aerial refueling from a KC-135 Stratotanker somewhere over the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) area of responsibility.

Looks very much like something out of a high-end video game!

Note the highway interchange just below the fighter jet….not to mention the vast areas of neatly-designed towns, sports facilities and industrial complexes across the nightscape.

Some great planning, expertise and effort here to “program” it all….as if in more ways than one!

United States Central Command area of responsibility is shown in color.

                                             F-16 Fighting Falcon

          A KC-135 Stratotanker refuels an F-16 Fighting Falcon

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>>Top photo: Master Sgt. Joseph Swafford, USAF