Night refueling

L´Armée de L´Air

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• KC-10
• Fighters
• Refueling
• Mirage
• 2000
• Night
• Flight
• French
• Air
• Force

[420pixel]

no, the aircraft taking the pictures is using a targetting pod that is locked onto the tanker.

It also looks like its flying in a loose formation some distance away from same tanker and has the FOV zoomed in high.

[theloopholeisntaahol]

A tanker within another tanker.... TANKERCEPTION

[Lumixster]

Its kinda strange that both planes are identical...and yes , its amazing tracking system, refueling plane pilot must be a robot....didnt flinch once...

[monsterkiller0101]

they're flying to the moon!

[bartekmachaj]

@sanfranciscobay are you sure about this? You might be right, but shouldn't the scale of the objects be preserved? To this theory (I think) if you would take fe. a large photo camera lens like 600mm and take a picture of fe. tennis ball (small) and there would be another (large) object like an aircraft standing few miles behind the ball the plane should look enormous... am I thinking right?

[sanfranciscobay]

@bartekmachaj

Good question. The moon appears large because the camera in the third plane, not seen, has a magnifying lens and we are seeing the moon magnified according to the strength of the magnification, ie binoculars are typically 7-8-10 magnification, I'm thinking this camera is optically stabilized so it may be 20-40-60 magnification, therefore the moon appears 20-40-60 times closer, as compared to 0 magnification.

[robloxplayer6444]

Holy shit. How dangerous is that??

[dereklsept]

@fallout3freak360 it's called force extension...if the lead has been out for awhile, and still has some gas left over, they'll give it to the second tanker that just got out into the AOR to have the extra gas out there as opposed to taking it home

[wolf1010]

I've looked at the moon with a TGP from our A-10s, there super cool when they aren't broken.

[TalksWithDirt]

Wow, that tracking is amazing! The image stabilization is stunning.

[kalahiki808]

@fallout3freak360 training purposes