Interesting footage of Air-to-Air Refueling of a B-2 from a KC-135.
As already explained, +20-hour missions, routinely flown by B-2 stealth bombers from Whiteman Air Force Base or RAF Fairford in UK (during an unusual overseas deployment), require several aerial refuelings.
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