The KC-135 was used to expand tactical communications across joint and combined forces for contested, multi-domain operations ...

India’s refueller fleet comprises six Russian Ilushin-78 tankers, first inducted in 2003, which are facing huge maintenance ...

April 17, 2023: Last month there was a major new development in Finland, which recently became a NATO member. That was significant because for nearly a century Finland has been neutral, a policy that ...

The 507th Air Refueling Wing, Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., is providing the KC-135 Stratotanker for the airshow. The KC-135 Stratotanker provides the core aerial refueling capability for the U.S. Air ...

Something was off with a key component used to literally hold many U.S. Air Force aircraft together—and it resulted in the service grounding 207 vital aircraft according to a Time Compliance Technical ...

New Delhi has ordered 156 attack helicopters from Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL), as well as contracted an air-to-air tanker. On 28 March India’s defence ministry announced that it would obtain the ...

Air Force maintenance crew members prepare to stabilize the tail of a KC-135 Stratotanker in this 2014 file photo. This week, the Air Force ordered immediate inspections of vertical stabilizer tail ...

The Air Force said no one was injured Wednesday afternoon when front landing gear retracted on a KC-135 Stratotanker parked at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas. “Aircrew had disembarked prior to the ...

A KC-135 Stratotanker refuels a Royal Air Force RC-135V/W Rivet Joint on June 26, 2014, off the coast of England. The U.S. Air Force has just 17 RC-135V/W Rivet Joints, its biggest and best ...

Fairchild Air Force Base officials are inspecting the installation’s tankers for potentially defective parts on the tail assembly that have grounded the jets nationwide until they’re cleared, a base ...

We’re used to hearing stuff and seeing images of fighter aircraft and bombers, but reconnaissance aircraft are much more discreet, and they don’t come out into the open all that often. Like, say, how ...

This system has been used to precisely target Russian equipment and forces operating on the frontlines of Ukraine. It has been an active, albeit indirect, participant in the war on behalf of Ukraine.