Please it's a tanker. For the latter half of the 60s the French Nuclear deterrent relied on Boeing built KC-135Fs to get its bombers to Moscow. That didn't seemd to bother them.
Americans, they make the French look manly.
Was that before they pulled out of the military part of NATO in '66?
Were the French producing long range strategic tankers back then?
” Please it’s a tanker. For the latter half of the 60s the French Nuclear deterrent relied on Boeing built KC-135Fs to get its bombers to Moscow. That didn’t seemd to bother them.”
What do fighters and bombers need to reach their targets, why they need fuel. Tankers are critical.
“Americans, they make the French look manly. “
Thats only cause we Americans shower on a regular basis.