The KC-46A is a larger aircraft from start to finish, being bigger, carrying more fuel, carrying it further, and carrying out more missions.

The KC-46As will replace the base’s KC-135 Stratotankers, an airplane first developed in the 1950s. The new tankers, which can refuel multiple aircraft — the KC-135s can only fill up one at a time — ...

R Stratotanker aircraft have been tracked flying toward and across the Mediterranean, marking a continued buildup of American aerial refueling capabilities in the direction of the Middle East, ...

Acceptance of the "airworthiness plan" allows the KC-135 autonomous flight test program to get underway, Merlin said. [Courtesy: U.S. Air Force] The U.S. Air Force has signed off on a plan to put AI ...

Real-time flight data is critical to progressing the design, integration, and eventual flight demonstrations of the Merlin Pilot, in addition to informing the planned Next Generation Air-Refueling ...

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Once-in-a-century change happening at a California base.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The 134th Air Refueling Wing at McGhee Tyson has been chosen to fly the Air Force's new KC-46 Pegasus refueling aircraft, after being one of seven units under consideration. Based ...

UK investigators have underlined the importance of transponders, after a serious airprox incident in which a US Air Force Boeing KC-135 carried out an evasive manoeuvre to avoid an undetected glider.