The martime signal flags on this one is advertising a vacant crew slot for work though you'll need to translate it yourself.
The tanker is named the "Texas Teapot" for its cargo. Also a minimum air escort of a single attack craft is cradled below. A Fairchild Brigand fighter called the "black gold" due to her black and gold paint scheme. While you might expect a fuel tanker to need a larger fighter escort these texaco tankers have a nasty reputation of being suicidal. Fitted with several high pressure nozzles facing several directions, it is able to spray a sizeable volume of fuel into a makeshift Fuel Air thermobaric explosive. Any fighters charging it are likly to charge into a cloud of pre-saturated fuel which then ignites by their engines or a flair fired from the teapot or her escort fighter, and its game over. If they believe they are going to loose anyway, captains have been known to set all nozzles to spray then jump overboard firing a time delayed flair as they fall. To date no hostile hijacking of a texaco fuel tanker has been successful. Dont F' with Texans and their Tea!
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