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

Within January 2026, the United States deployed F‑15E Strike Eagles from the 494th Fighter Squadron at RAF Lakenheath toward ...

The KC-46As will replace the base’s KC-135 Stratotankers, an airplane first developed in the 1950s. The new tankers, which ...

Capt. Jordan Wesemann, a KC-135 tanker pilot, refueled his twin brother Jared's F-35 fighter jet during an exercise in Japan. Their father is a former Air Force rescue pilot.

Previous deployments of the KC-135 Stratotanker aerial refueler to the Middle East have often come before US military action. The United States Air Force does not disclose the movement of high-profile ...

March Air Reserve Base (ARB) began construction on a cutting-edge hangar facility for the Boeing KC-46A Pegasus multi-role ...

The MRTT program has several key advantages over comparable aircraft like the KC-135—chiefly its ability to draw from ...

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.

Changes to the source-selection plan for the U.S. Air Force’s $35-billion KC-X program are not likely to be substantial, and this could lead the procurement effort down a familiar path of contractors ...