The steeply banked go around by a KC-135 at RAF Mildenhall was not just a viral clip of a big jet muscling through the sky. It was a glimpse into how close-run airspace, demanding training and ...

The KC-135 was used to expand tactical communications across joint and combined forces for contested, multi-domain operations, and is now testing the High Value Airborne Asset Pod. The Air National ...

The Air Force may have to keep its aging KC-135 tankers flying beyond their planned 2050 retirement, depending on how many new tankers it buys in coming years and whether a next-generation refueling ...

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

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.

Twin pilots met in the sky over the Pacific. On a Dec. 4 training flight in Japan, Air Force Capt. Jordan Wesemann was at the controls of his KC-135 tanker aircraft as his twin brother, Capt. Jared ...

Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan signaled that Eielson Air Force Base could be anticipating four planned KC-135 Stratotankers soon, more than a year after their expected arrival. In a Wednesday news release, ...

The US Air Force Security Assistance and Training (AFSAT) Squadron has co-ordinated Block 45 training for four Turkish Air Force KC-135 tanker pilots. AFSAT is the central management agency for all ...

A new U.S. Air Force analysis recommends continuing the development of NGAD, as well as terminating the NGAS stealth tanker program which was supposed to support the next gen fighter in contested ...

TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 10, 2017 ” CAE (NYSE: CAE) has secured approval to link its KC-135 Stratotanker simulator to the U.S. Air Force‘s Distributed Training Center Network in efforts to support ...

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