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US Air Picture Shows 10 Tankers and AWACS Over Middle East Amid Strike Campaign

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US Air Picture Shows 10 Tankers and AWACS Over Middle East Amid Strike Campaign

✈️ CENTCOM — Ten tankers airborne means Washington isn't planning to stop soon. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Ten KC-135s and KC-46s plus an E-3 Sentry overhead means the fourth wave wasn't the last. Tanker density signals sustained high-tempo operations — AWACS confirms active command and control, not cleanup. For Tehran, this air picture is a ceiling assessment: the US has the logistics architecture to keep striking indefinitely without pausing for resupply.

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