[driftdiver]

” 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.

[AFreeBird]

I would also add... and C-17 & C-5A 's (even C-130's) are just flying boxcars. And yet they are operated by a military organization that calls itself "Strategic Airlift Command".

Anything that keeps strategic assets in the air and circumnavigating countries (and so called allies - Like France) that won't allow flyovers for political/military reasons IS a "Strategic Asset".

We up to speed on that now, OB?