[PAR35]

France, Russia, Britain and the United States can also refuel planes in midair.

So can Italy, or they just wasted a pile of money buying a new tanker from Boeing.

[tanknetter]

So can Italy, or they just wasted a pile of money buying a new tanker from Boeing.

Perhaps the article was referring to a home-grown aerial refueling capability (then again, it looks like the ChiComs are using Russian hardware). There are, iirc, a couple dozen countries that have aerial refueling capability using equipment purchased elsewhere.