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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.

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[–] graycube@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe they are invading Greenland. Or it is a ruse and they are invading Canada.

[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“How to start WW3 in 10 seconds”.

[–] match@pawb.social 6 points 1 day ago

"How to lose WW3 in a day"

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Armchair theory is that the US large platform bombers will be used to credibly threaten repeated bunker buster hits on Fordow nuclear site. This could pressure Iran to surrender its entire nuclear program including that site.

Currently Israel doesn't have the capability by itself to destroy the site but US bombers possibly could.

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[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Watching https://globe.adsbexchange.com/ and filtering by military-only is fun.

C17s flying back and forth between Ramstein and Israel for a couple hours already (not sure how many normally do, tbf. could be normal)

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