SAC Global Shield 1983 - MITO

Global Shield MITO (Minimum Interval Takeoff) from K. I. Sawyer AFB, Michigan. Part of the aircraft have already departed. If you notice when the last B-52 launches, at 15 second intervals, there is a KC-135 right behind him. Someone had added a dry B-52G to our flight, and they put him at the end of our B-52H stream. Of course the KC-135s were wet, they had water augmentation, and were using 30 second intervals. The lead KC-135 almost caught up to the last B-52G.