WATCH! U.S. Air Force Shows Dozens of Heavy Power BOEING KC-135 AIRCRAFT In McConnell Air Force Base

^^^ this. Sure the machines are impressive but that means jack shit when the personnel are garbage.

The USA secretly practiced the "elephant walk" and at the same time raised almost half of all KC-135 into the sky

Last Edited by NATO-UPDATE OFFICIAL on 11/30/2022 09:20 AM

My the IQ is soon looww in this OP.

Please point me to a picture of a KC135 Stealth Bomber. Please.

Maroon.

It's not a bomber. It's a flying refueling station.

An important piece of the complete puzzle, but not necessarily impressive by any means.

Use a search engine to see a picture and read up on it.

my bad its kc-135 stratotanker

5 years in military aviation...multiple rides in refuelers, I know exactly what a 135 IS.

A “high powered” tanker plane? What is that?

A Nightmare for Russia!!!!...according to OP.

??

So Russia is panicking and the patriots are in control?

Ahh!!!! so they are going to fly the oil reserves out of Russia. Good plan. *nods

Stupid threads start with "russia suprised"

Russia doesn't care. They are not surprised about anything.

OP fucks his sister and their hair-lipped mother watches.




For real.





Z.

PRECISELY!

For the past 27 years I've lived 1/4 mile away from the west gate of McConnell and KC-135's are NOT NEWS since the base has been a refueling support wing for many years now. True, they are absolutely essential for any kind of long-range air assault, but hardly deadly unless one crashes with full tanks - as happened back in 1965 right here in Wichita ... and burned out two full city blocks of slums up at 21st/Piatt Street where it killed a total of 30 people, 23 of them in their own homes! I still remember seeing that big black cloud of smoke from where my family was living at the time and later my Dad driving us through the area that was literally wiped clean by the fire.

But those benign aircraft weren't ALWAYS the case at McConnell AFB. In recent years I've also seen both B1B's and B-2's cruising above the base when they were based here. And let me tell you, those B-2's were especially spooky since they were virtually silent as the glided along like giant Birds-of-prey from a STAR TREK movie.

But long before them, back in the 60's McConnell was a SAC base[for you youngsters, that means "Strategic Air Command" and was a VERY big deal!] when we had B-52 bombers [and a B-29 or two] parked on those runways; REAL BOMBERS that were actually built just 1/2 mile further south at the massive Boeing plant that has employed thousands of locals from WWII right up to today. In fact, there's still a fully-restored and air-worthy B-29 [named "DOC"] parked out at the Eisenhower airport that was built in that plant... as are those KC-135's you see in the OP's video.


Wichita was a SCARY place to live during the cold war since in addition to those bombers parked at McConnell, [thanks to that reckless tool JFK] we also had five TITAN II missile silos ringing the city. You see: as a SAC base, McConnell was listed as a first-strike Soviet target back then.

So when we heard those air raid sirens blasting from the tornado warning horns every Kansan knows too well, we DID duck-n-cover even though we knew it was pointless in a real attack scenario. Because if McConnell got hit, Wichita would've been toast. And that remains the case today, especially since we still have both McConnell and the Boeing manufacturing plants adjacent to one another.

Just last spring those tornado sirens got an upgrade: they now have TWO alerts: the familiar solid wail we hear during severe weather and the newly-added old-fashioned warbling tone only us old-timers still recall from those more terrifying years. And while the local news only gave a 30-sec blurb about that upgrade, what they failed to mention is that McConnell is still a second-strike nuclear target, as are all military support bases in the U.S.

Incidentally, C-135's are the little brothers of the KC-135's. Instead of carrying thousands of pounds of fuel, they are transport craft that carry MEN, APC's and other heavy equipment into warzones so if they start to cluster around any American bases, PAY ATTENTION!


BTW: one aircraft I haven't seen much anymore is Air Force One whose cockpit and avionics are also built at the Boeing plants just south of where I write this; the fuselage is made at their Seattle facilities, but we build the "brains" of those planes.

At one time I could count on seeing AF1 at least every six months for routine maintenance as it slid into town at McConnell before taxiing on down the runways that connect it directly with Boeing. But in the past couple of years, I haven't seen it it all so maybe they're now using Seattle for those checkups.

Last Edited by GSB/LTD on 11/30/2022 11:20 AM

LAUGH ALL YOU WANT but our fighter jets couldn't stay in the sky without those KC-135's. Like it or not little man, war is nothing like a game you play in your Mommy's basement.

Yess you're right

Then you shouldn't have been hitching a ride on a KC-135, but rather a C-135, Mr. Air-Force-Expert. Thank God you were never a pilot!

Last Edited by GSB/LTD on 11/30/2022 11:03 AM

OP: Any idea when that video was shot? It's been well over month since I've heard any serious action over on McConnell's flightlanes.

I heard several noisy takeoffs yesterday -and in fact I'm hearing a few right now as I write this- but nothing of the scope that video indicates. But last summer we did have several days of really heavy activity that I reported in a thread here on GLP, asking if others had heard the same at their local bases.

I'm close enough to the base that I can actually heard PA announcements to ground personnel and they too have been absent recently. Interestingly, they use the same PA horns that blast the tornado/air raid warnings that rotate to broadcast the alerts 360-degrees!

Last Edited by GSB/LTD on 11/30/2022 11:57 AM

Not very green of them , someone running out of carbon credits ....

I think that every time we have an airshow around here like we did just a few months ago when my townhouse was again rattled by those low-flying machines of menace and death... the Thunderbirds team flying so low I could almost read the Pilot's names stenciled on their cockpits.

And then just three weeks later, two of the same planes that flew overhead here [one a B-17] collided in Dallas, crashed and killed six. If that had happened here at McConnell the death toll would've been MUCH higher since the entire base is ringed by either residential housing, an 8-lane turnpike or Boeing hangars filled with people busily spot-welding out some big-assed aircraft.

Back in the 90's I calculated how much the fuel cost alone was for a single fighter jet at one of those shows and was staggered at the total all those planes burned up: it was around $225,000!

They're actually airborne more the day BEFORE the big show as they rehearse several hours instead of the 15-minute performance. This is done so the pilots can get a solid take on the local terrain in case of an emergency, but then Dallas proved anything can still happen.

And since a single jet burns up tens of thousands of dollars in fuel alone [which is measured not by gallons, but by pounds] at one of those airshows, those displays of manifest destiny aren't CHEAP by any means!

Last Edited by GSB/LTD on 11/30/2022 12:12 PM