Yeah, I thought that was odd as well. The thing is, the military doesn’t really care about how much fuel it uses. With mid air refueling, these things already have insane endurance anyway. I worked in command and control at a B-52 base and remember monitoring 18 hour missions. I remember being deployed to Qatar and the base commander bragging about that base using the most jet fuel of any base.
Yeah, I thought that was odd as well. The thing is, the military doesn’t really care about how much fuel it uses. With mid air refueling, these things already have insane endurance anyway. I worked in command and control at a B-52 base and remember monitoring 18 hour missions. I remember being deployed to Qatar and the base commander bragging about that base using the most jet fuel of any base.