Airmen from the 366th Logistics Readiness Squadron, a.k.a. "Gunfighters," devised an old-tech solution for reducing the hot-pit refueling time of F-35 Lightning Ⅱ Joint Strike Fighters. Initially, they used R-11 trucks. Each holds 6,000 gallons, enough for refueling only two aircraft at a time. So the Gunfighters instead rigged up a hydrant system from the 1950s with hose carts from the 1970s, directly connected to 500,000-gallon tanks.
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