Photos: Chinese tanker aircraft pass fuel to fighter jets

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By Dylan Malyasov
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Ministry of National Defense of the People's Republic of China had released photographs of a midair refueling training exercise. A J-10B fighter jet attached to an air aviation brigade of the air force under the PLA Northern Theater Command taxies towards the runway before takeoff for a midair refueling training exercise on December 9, 2017. Photo by Yang Pan and Tang Shikuai

Ministry of National Defense of the People’s Republic of China released photographs of a midair refueling training exercise.

A J-10B and a J-10S fighter jets attached to an air aviation brigade of the air force under the PLA Northern Theater Command fly alongside an aerial refueling tanker as they take turns refueling from a multi-point system of the HU-6 aerial refueling tanker during a midair refueling training exercise on December 9, 2017.

Photo by Yang Pan and Tang Shikuai

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