Operation Sword
A few days ago, the U.S. side officially announced a series of attractive "Bamboo Eagle" military training.
Bamboo Eagle 24-1 "was the first such training conducted by the American Aviation Combat Center, with the participation of about 3000 people, including the United States, Great Britain, Australia. Among these fighters, there are 24 armies, including more than a dozen bases in the western United States, with a total of 150 fighters of various types.
The combat headquarters of the United States is based at Nellis Airfield in Nevada.
A strategic Globemaster III transport aircraft, known as the C-17, arrived at the airport and was well prepared for its replenishment on land.
Ground crews connected the tubing to the exhaust port of the C-17 carrier, which is normally used to empty the tanks.
Now, however, the aircraft has a special role, and that is that the C-17 is going to provide some fuel for an F-22 Raptor stealth fighter. It was also the first time that the F-22 fighters under the U.S. Air Force Flight Operations Command were restocked.
The fuel injection device can be seen from the C-17A's casing.
Since the fuel pipeline requires a specific air pressure, multiple pumps should be added in the middle of the pipeline, powered by a C-17A carrier.
This is a C-17 aircraft, which was delivered from the United Air Force Base Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
A ground worker, holding a laptop computer, receives the relevant news.
The F-22 stealth fighter was converted from the Alaska region of the United States from the Almendorf-Richardson Air Force Base in the United States.
In this picture, the F-22 pulls open the cockpit canopy and the magazines on both sides, and shows off its built-in AIM-9X Sidewinder short-range air-to-air missile.
The United States** said that the "Bamboo Eagle 24-1" joint exercise will establish a flexible, combat-capable, multi-dimensional battlefield environment for the United States and its allies to test their advanced training capabilities.
The designers of the Globemaster III "C-17 probably never imagined that the aircraft could also be used as a fuel station on land**.
The U.S. Air Force's KC-46 Pegasus tanker had to refuel other fighters on the ground because it did not have sufficient air refueling permits.
Rounding up, some of the supply methods between the C-17 and the KC-46 are actually identical.
An American videographer, lying on the ground, magnifies the volume of *** from the perspective below.
Elizabeth Tan, who took photos for the event at the Public Affairs Office of the 57th Flying Group, may be Chinese by name.