and has also awarded a US company with a contract to lease a Boeing KC-135 aerial tanker for training. According to the MoD statement, the acquisition of the 156 LCHs is split across two separate ...

If the KC-135s are indeed still in service in the 2050s, “that timeline would put the KC-135’s service life near 100 years,” Air & Space Forces Magazine reported. That’s a long time.

As of today, the KC-135 Stratotankers have undergone multiple modernizations and service life extensions, the most recent in 2010 with the Block 45 upgrade, which enhanced the tanker’s capabilities ...

It was the day that Northrop Grumman Corporation announced that it had been selected by the U.S. Air Force to provide the KC-45A aerial refueling tanker for the KC-135 ... to block a no-jail ...

Flight testing of an autonomous KC-135 Stratotanker may begin next year. Boston’s Merlin Labs, Inc. and the U.S. Air Force’s 6th Air Refueling Wing at MacDill AFB, Fla., have been testing the ...

This marks the first publicly acknowledged instance of a U.S. Air Force KC-135 tanker refueling a Russian-made Su-30MKM aircraft. A KC-135 Stratotanker assigned to the 141st Air Refueling Wing ...

Integrating the Merlin Pilot on the KC-135 kickstarts Merlin’s Part 25 airworthiness programs and is material to continued advancements on this class of aircraft. Merlin is targeting the end of ...

[Courtesy: U.S. Air Force] Robotics company Merlin says it has flown the first three flights in its autonomous control program on the KC-135. The flights were conducted at the Pittsburgh Air ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Headline and photo caption should read: "Merlin Kicks Off KC-135 Test Flight Campaign with SNC to Progress Autonomous Capabilities for the United States Air Force ...

McConnell Air Force Base said there were no injuries after a KC-135’s front landing gear retracted while parked on Wednesday. A news release from McConnell says it happened around 3:45 p.m. on ...

Training in the vastness of the Indo-Pacific region, a KC-135 from Alaska refueled a Northrop Grumman B-2 bomber en route to Australia. Credit: Tech. Sgt. Hailey Haux/U.S. Air Force As it faces a ...