The US Air Force demonstrated the "elephant walk" of 18 huge aerial tankers KC-135 Stratotanker

The U.S. Air Force staged an "elephant walk" of KC-135 Stratotanker aerial tankers.Measure

was held at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida.

What is known

"Elephant Walk" is an operation when the skyseveral planes are flying at the same time. In our case, 18 KC-135 Stratotanker air tankers. This was the fate of the Violent Storm exercise, aimed at quickly mobilizing the fleet.

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Preparation of 18 aircraft took about sixhours and required the involvement of more than seven hundred specialists. This "elephant walk" has become one of the largest with the participation of air tankers KC-135. More aircraft simultaneously took to the skies only in 2021 - 20 units.