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 U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command has suggested their KC-135 Stratotanker fleet may serve beyond 2050 with a life extension and upgrade program. Almost 70 years after the type's first flight, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President-elect Donald J. Trump has named his pick for Air Force secretary, finally announcing the last service secretary nominee ...

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 ...

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, ...