Mission vignette animations
Please select a mission vignette and tanker type to see a mission animation.
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Each animation is an automatically generated representation of the solved mission and does not depict the actual flight paths taken by aircraft and modeled in the analysis. Tankers employ like-tanker force extension when appropriate and maintain a minimum standoff from PRC territory: the KC-46A and A330 MRTT+ at 700 nmi, Medium BWB at 600 nmi, Medium Red. Sig. at 400 nmi, and CTA at 500 nmi. Designs that cannot fly the mission are not animated. Not every aircraft is drawn: each mission shows a representative set of tanker sorties and receivers, and a strike package flies as a single receiver icon. The count shown is the full fleet required, including 70 percent aircraft availability.