[Jeff Head]

BTW, I believe the Venezuelan Air Force still maintains four KC-135s. If you check out the various pictures at this Venezuelan Air Force site and look at the unit nuymbers, I believe you can ID four seperate KC-135s.

Venezuelan Refueling Aircraft Pictures

Most of those pictyres were taken in 2006 and 2007.

[Mr. Silverback]

When I was in SAC we had a lot of unofficial patches that got circulated around. One of them was circular with a large Red Star on it and a border legend reading "KC-135 Stratotanker--Mig Bait."

Give me an E-3 and some F-22s or some E-3s and F/A-18s with slammers or any combination of the above aircraft, and I can turn those KC-135s into flaming debris. Escorts don't matter. I don't care how good those Venezuelan jocks think they are or how good the SU-30 is (and it is really, really good) they haven't been to Top Gun or the Fighter Weapons School at Nellis. They, like the F-16 before them, will find themselves to be "Raptor Training Aids."