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^ (Buddy to buddy refueling)

"In-flight refueling from one
suitably modified combat aircraft to another combat aircraft. The quantity of fuel transferred is comparatively very small. A specialized pod is used by the "mother" aircraft for this purpose."
 

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A C-130J Super Hercules aircraft of the Indian Air Force delivering relief supplies at Tacloban, Philippines.
 

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"A half-century of MiG-21FL service came to a close on 11 December at Kalaikunda. Whilst nothing like the beautiful sendoff the Phantoms got at Wittmund, the ceremony was as good a send off as could be asked for as the Type-77s of the OCU (Operational Conversion Unit) flew for the last time." - (Angad Singh)
 

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i thought only tankers were used for mid air refuels........
Buddy-buddy refuelling allows fighters to refuel one another. It is particularly useful for navies and carrier ops, here a fighter is often configured as a fighter i.e. instead of carrying any ordinance they will carry external tanks and then will be used to refuel other fighters:







(the above is a Mig-29K refuelling a Mig-35).


For the IN this is especially useful as one of the downfalls of STOBAR is that, as a fighter as to take off under its own power on a short deck, weight is a limiting factor and thus you are confronted between fuelling up for missions with plenty of fuel but barely any ordinance or vice versa. The buddy-buddy refuelling system overcomes this issue greatly as fighters (MiG-29K/KUBs) can take off with minimal fuel but heavy weapon loads and then be topped off once in the air by a MiG-29K/KUB acting as a tanker and then be on their way with both heavy fuel and weapons.


It is also useful for strike missions as you don't need a heavy lumbering AAR for IFR but another fighter as such each MKI SQD in the IAF has 1-2 of these buddy-buddy refuelling pods.
 

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The Su 30 MKI armed with 2x short Range Vympel R-73 (AA-11 Archer) and 6x long range R-77 RVV-AE (AA-12 Adder) and 2x OFAB-250-270 High-Explosive Fragmentation Dumb Bombs ..Seen on Aero India 2011

Thanks to Vishal Jolapara
 

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The Su 30 MKI armed with 2x short Range Vympel R-73 (AA-11 Archer) and 6x long range R-77 RVV-AE (AA-12 Adder) and 2x OFAB-250-270 High-Explosive Fragmentation Dumb Bombs ..Seen on Aero India 2011

Thanks to Vishal Jolapara
those are 3X2 = 6 FAB bombs....................
 

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