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

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.

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 — ...

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 ...

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, ...

Flight testing of an autonomous KC-135 Stratotanker may begin next year. Boston’s Merlin Labs, Inc. and the U.S. Air Force’s 6th Air Refueling Wing at MacDill AFB, Fla., have been testing the Merlin ...

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