Not if they want to get destroyed by Iranian drones and missiles. Iran is probably itching for such opportunities.
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It still means a hit on the Lincoln sortie generation rate. More time flying in and out means less ordnance dropped in a given day
They are doing buddy refuel, there was a photo of it from start of the war:
I recall the chahuahui guys humorously referred to this loadout as "KC-18".
those early warning big radars destroyed by Iran have high volume of Gallium and entire world production controlled by China and very small percentage controlled by Russia. so its really game over for USA unless China export to US MIC again.
I am sure claude-grok-gemini-open-ai fusion into the Super Ai can do something about this
Werent the F18s pretty active in shooting iranian navy etc? Consider Carrier is somewhere in indian ocean apparently so they prob cant go deeper into iran
Assuming CSG is somewhere in this region:
Black line is 800ish miles to Their main port,
And red line is 1200ish miles. So with refueling they could reach n come back but cant go deeper.
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President Putin right now.
President Putin right now.
I don't know about the demand to withdraw all US bases from GCC, but I'm guessing unless US can pull a win somehow eventually a deal similar to this and getting rid of sanctions would be Iran's condition for ceasefire, it's kind of the thing they've bee negotiating for all these years.
There were numerous statements from EU leaders a few days ago about NOT doing this and welp, get wrecked.
Right now its mid-air collision sigh
Nothing wrong can happen to nato/west troops/equipment etc
Personnel drowning accidentally in the Red Sea.
personnel getting sucked into quicksand.
personnel vanishing without a trace on a hike in the desert.
personnel having heart attacks while deployed to an unknown theater.
personnel dying in a car crash in Poland.
Gulf but not Saudis etc, maybe the closer ones in bahrain qatar kuwait etc.
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