JAN. 3 – Israel Channel 10 Military Affairs correspondent Alon Ben David reports that the Israeli Air Force has successfully retrofitted decades-old Boeing 707 airplanes, essentially turning them into aerial tankers for refueling Israeli F-15’s.
Covering an air force drill and broadcasting pictures of a mid-air refueling, Ben David showed the interior of an old Boeing aircraft, with its passenger seats replaced with fuel tanks.
Ben David notes that IDF officials don’t mention a word of Iran in their briefings. But the implication is clear, he says. Successul mid-air refueling is critical for any long-range IDF mission, a mission, he says, which could be put to the test in the future if sanctions against Iran fail to stem Iran’s development of a nuclear weapon.
