According to CENTCOM, the incident was “not due to hostile or friendly fire" and occurred during Operation Epic Fury.

Despite past accidents, it remains reliable, with continuous upgrades, while gradually being replaced by the KC-46 Pegasus.

In a public statement issued by the US Central Command on Thursday, March 12, it's been confirmed that the aircraft involved ...

The US today lost a large aerial refuelling aircraft over Iraq, in what was one of the biggest American military hardware losses after the destruction of an expensive radar of the anti-missile system ...

For decades, aerial refueling boom operators guided the fuel boom by looking directly out a window at the aircraft behind them. The new KC-46 Pegasus tanker changed that system completely. Instead of ...