Brett Wilkins Jun 16, 2025

Flight-tracking websites showed dozens of Air Force aerial refueling planes departing from military bases in the United States and heading to Europe on Sunday, fueling speculation of direct U.S. involvement in the widening Israeli-Iranian war.

Military-focused news sites reported that around 30 U.S. Air Force KC-135R and KC-46A tankers were identified by flight-tracking software in what The Times of Israelcalled an “unprecedented mass deployment” to Europe.

  • Ledericas@lemm.ee
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    13 hours ago

    it works in russias favor since its redirecting some resources from the ukrainian front, its not a coindence that this is occuring at the same time russia was having larger losses.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 hours ago

      What do you mean? Israel is doing Russia a solid for some reason?

      Also, nothing has been redirected yet. It takes a while for stuff to move through the military supply chain and into the hands of Ukrainian forces, or Israeli ones, and even then you’d need the US to pass different funding legislation.