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C-5 Aerial Tanker Refuelling #4626

Closed Quark-73 closed 3 months ago

Quark-73 commented 3 months ago

DB Selector

DB3K

User(s)

USAF C-5

Weapons Carried

none

Requires Buddy Illumination

No

Default Combat Radius (nm)

4000 nm (?) but depends on fuel given to tanker

Weather Restrictions

All-Weather

Time-of-Day Restrictions

Day & Night

Capable of Quick Turnaround

No

Comments

This loudout should only work for re-fuelling tanker aircrafts with a boom.

Sources

https://www.travis.af.mil/News/Display/Article/3620886/team-travis-flyers-conduct-reverse-flow-air-refueling/

https://www.airandspaceforces.com/c-5-super-galaxy-refueling/

PygmalionOfCyprus commented 3 months ago

This is a cool experiment and potentially an interesting future capability if it becomes a more regular occurrence, but so far it's too experimental to add as an actual "capability" in Command. The refueling logic also can't handle this right now so I don't have a good way to model it.