How fighter jets refuel in midair

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Because landing to refuel is highly inconvenient during a mission, massive tanker aircraft unravel enormous rigid booms or long flexible hoses. Fighter jets then cautiously pull up behind them at high altitudes to quite literally plug in and gulp liquids.

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