Discover how a modern, digital, multi-mission tanker does things the KC-135 was never designed to do.
Although the key fixes for the KC-46 will still take years to fully reach the fleet, a new plan promises a 20% availability ...
Aerial tankers might not have the same heroic image as jet fighters or the same firepower heavy bombers do, but their strategic importance is unrivaled in the day-to-day operations and movement of the ...
March 12 (Reuters) - Boeing has to fix ongoing ⁠problems ⁠with its KC-46 aerial refueling tanker ⁠before the United States orders more, U.S. Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. John Lamontagne told ...
Image Credit: U.S. Air Force photo/Jet Fabara - Public Domain, Wikimedia. A senior United States Air Force official has warned that Boeing must resolve persistent technical problems with its KC-46 ...
A U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker reportedly vanished from radar over the Gulf after transmitting a 7700 emergency squawk, ...
A prototype of the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider stealth bomber has conducted aerial refuelling with a Boeing KC-135 tanker. The US Air Force (USAF) confirms that the advanced type has conducted aerial ...
General Electric Co. said Monday it signed an agreement potentially worth $180 million to furnish mission control systems for the new aerial refueling tanker aircraft that Boeing Co. will build for ...
The move is a rare use of the probe-and-drogue method for in-flight refuelling by the US Air Force, which typically conducts such missions via a fuel transfer boom. The US Air Force (USAF) has ...
An aerial view of a Boeing KC-46 Pegasus aerial refueling tanker parked at King County International Airport-Boeing Field in Seattle on June 1, 2022. (Reuters file) March 12 (Reuters) – Boeing has to ...