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The Boeing KC-135, nicknamed Stratotanker is an aerial refueling aircraft that has been in continuous service with the USAF ...
Experience the precision and power of U.S. Air Force aerial operations as the Altus Joint Demo Team showcases a rare in-flight refueling demonstration between a C-17 Globemaster III and a KC-135 ...
The existing hangar was designed and built to accommodate the wing's existing KC-135 aerial refueling tankers. The construction project will build a universal fuel cell hangar that can ...
A taste of the military might of the US has been given in an image released by the Air Force from its closest base to the disputed island of Taiwan. Fifty military aircraft plus two missile ...
The majority of aircraft in the formation were from the Air Force, including 24 F-35A stealth fighter jets, eight F-15E fighter aircraft, six HH-60 helicopters, six KC-135 aerial refueling tanker ...
“For too long, we have treated our aerial refuelling enterprise like an afterthought — slowly retiring the KC-10, stretching the KC-135 beyond ... based Omega Air Refueling Services operates ...
This Jan. 17, 1966, file photo, shows part of the wreckage of the U.S. Air Force B-52 that crashed in Palomares, Spain, after a midair collision with a KC-135 aerial tanker during refueling.
This week’s elephant walk at Kadena is also the second this year, following another in January that included nine KC-135 aerial refueling tanker aircraft.
Deliveries of the KC-46A Pegasus aerial refueling tanker are expected to resume within days ... the USAF may be forced to extend the service life of its KC-135 Stratotankers, some of which are over 60 ...
We see them flying above the Sioux City metro frequently, the large KC-135 refueling planes based at the 185th Air Refueling ...
Older refueling tankers like the KC-10 Extender and KC-135 Stratotanker require boom operators to look through a window in the back while steering a boom into the receiving aircraft. KC-135 boom ...
The U.S. Air Force expects its extended KC-46 aircraft delivery drought to end soon, with the delivery process to begin next week after the aerial refueling fleet has been fully inspected for ...