Air refueling fighter fighter fighters F-35 Lightning II ordinary tankers like KC-10 Extender and KC-135 Stratotanker deprives the first advantages of using stealth technology. A method of destruction by means of anti-air defense (air defense) at once several low-charming aircraft describes RIA Novosti.
The publication notes that tankers are “an easy target for anti-aircraft missile systems.” “Russia has a C-400 with a range of 400 kilometers and MiG-31 interceptors that beat the R-33 rocket at 300 kilometers, so there is something to be feared by the American aircraft,” the agency writes.
It is noted that “it is still unclear how to use them together with fighters of the fifth generation F-22 and F-35.” “The refueling” invisible “in the air completely demasses it completely, and the air defense of the enemy with one shot can kill two at once, and then the three” hares “,” the publication says.
RIA Novosti reminds that in the USA is developing low-net air tankers.
In September, Lockheed Martin introduced the LMXT air refiner project, which will compete with the acting Boeing KC-46 aircraft in the US Air Force Competition, which assumes the creation of the KC-Y tanker.
In the same month, the demonstration sample of the unmanned tanker MQ-25 Stingray US Naval Forces made an air refueling fighter fighter F-35C Lightning II.