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I wonder if these F35s had external fuel tanks attached, for the long flight back home?
by avalys 7y ago
I wonder if these F35s had external fuel tanks attached, for the long flight back home?
- mannykannot 7y agoExcellent question. Embedded within the article is a video of the airplanes arriving in Berlin, and there is no sign of external stores. They might have stopped elsewhere in Europe and removed them there, but a caption on the video describes it as "a record-setting long-duration flight for the F-35 from Arizona" and "an 11-hour flight."
- angry_octet 7y agoIt would have been air to air refuelled, the F-35 isn't certified for any type of external tank, though it gets mooted occasionally when someone wants more endurance.