Iran Just Exposed the Brutal U.S. Air Force Tanker Crisis No One Wants to Discuss

Iran Just Exposed the Brutal U.S. Air Force Tanker Crisis No One Wants to Discuss

Iran just exposed one of the U.S. military’s most dangerous and overlooked vulnerabilities: five U.S. Air Force refueling tankers were struck while parked in the open at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. The losses, paired with a separate mid-air collision over Iraq that killed six KC-135 crew members, have triggered alarm bells inside the Pentagon about a tanker fleet that is dangerously exposed and stretched far too thin. The U.S. Air Fo…