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very analogous to airplanes running on fuel vs batteries
by scrumbledober 4y ago
very analogous to airplanes running on fuel vs batteries
- tialaramex 4y agoI was actually thinking it was like the Falklands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Black_Buck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Black_Buck The British were able to fly bombers from tremendously far away, with a chain re-fuel strategy where the re-fuelling tanker planes are themselves re-fuelled by other tankers which then turn back. Later iterations were optimised by thinking more carefully about who should transfer fuel, to who, and when, as in this example. Arguably Black Buck was pointless, it was certainly not pivotal in the outcome of the war, but the actual process was fascinating.