Watch a U.S. Marine Corps KC-130J refuel two F-35B Joint Strike Fighters

March 25, 2015 F-35, Military Aviation
David Cenciotti

If you suffer air sickness, this footage is not for you.

Here’s a B-roll showing two U.S. Marine Corps KC-130s flying with two F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters over Beaufort, South Carolina, during an aerial refueling mission on Mar. 19, 2015.

The KC-130 is an extended range tanker transport aircraft modified for aerial refueling of aircraft equipped with an IFR (In Flight Refueling) probe: in other words, F-35B and C, the variants for the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Navy.



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David Cenciotti is a journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of the world’s most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written five books and contributed to many more ones.

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7 Comments

    • Talk to any fighter pilot about the danger of contrails. If you have something substantive to say, say it.

  2. its very humid out….every aircraft would have the same phenomenon…you cant detect this small amount of wind turbulence unless you were focusing right at it.

  3. You have no idea what you’re talking about, do you? Stealth doesn’t stop people from visually seeing you, it is the process of reducing radar and inferred signatures.

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