North Korean Missile Test

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

FTR, If my sources are correct (daughter of a guy in the air force) Australia does have mid-air refueling capabilities so we could, in principle, bomb Japan. Just a little. Kind of a sony-minaturised bonsai bombing.

Puts the "do little" in Doolittle Raid, doesn't it?

Likewise, there's an RAN underway replenishment capability for surface action. One of the pages I hit on was an article about one of Australia's two AORs unrepping a US carrier -- the captain was moved to remark that the replenishment was on a larger scale than he usually saw. Probably pumping over a lot more JP-5 and vertrepping more food.

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