{"id":176,"date":"2025-06-16T13:35:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T13:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2025\/06\/16\/sudden-deployment-of-dozens-of-u-s-air-force-tankers-raises-questions\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T13:35:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T13:35:33","slug":"sudden-deployment-of-dozens-of-u-s-air-force-tankers-raises-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2025\/06\/16\/sudden-deployment-of-dozens-of-u-s-air-force-tankers-raises-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudden Deployment of Dozens of U.S. Air Force Tankers Raises Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Stratotanker100Years_2-e1750080240327-460x259.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Sudden Deployment of Dozens of U.S. Air Force Tankers\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Around 30 KC-135 and KC-46 tankers departed the U.S. headed to Europe, but their final destination is unknown. In the night between June 15 and 16, 2025, multiple U.S. Air Force KC-135 and KC-46 aerial refueling aircraft departed their bases in the United States headed to Europe. The sudden and unusual movement was quickly noticed [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/2025\/06\/16\/sudden-deployment-dozens-usaf-tankers\/\">Sudden Deployment of Dozens of U.S. Air Force Tankers Raises Questions<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/\">The Aviationist<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 30 KC-135 and KC-46 tankers departed the U.S. headed to Europe, but their final destination is unknown. In the night between June 15 and 16, 2025, multiple U.S. Air Force KC-135 and KC-46 aerial refueling aircraft departed their bases in the United States headed to Europe. The sudden and unusual movement was quickly noticed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}