The KC-46A from the 56th Air Refueling Squadron was assigned the role of the plane's official flight demonstration team.

The first tanker was propeller-driven and today they are based on airliners (the Boeing 707 and 767), but this is soon set to ...

The U.S. Air Force is exploring the use of self-flying tankers for aerial refueling and other missions under a new contract. Boston-based Merlin Labs is the beneficiary of the 19-month ...

He added “The 168th Wing at Eielson is the only Alaska-based air refueling unit supporting ... Brown said the new tankers will support Alaska-based Air Force units in both the Arctic and the ...

Victor served as a nuclear deterrent against the Soviet Union and strategic photoreconnaissance aircraft and a refueling ...

The lack of aerial refueling tankers would reduce the effectiveness ... cruise missiles and nuclear rhetoric.” The Air Force has adopted a new operating strategy called agile combat employment ...

A U.S. Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet was conducting a refueling mission over the Red Sea when it was downed in a friendly fire ...

13—Four additional KC-135 Stratotankers, the lynchpins of the U.S. military's aerial refueling ... are no new Stratotankers. Of the roughly 400 KC-135s still used by the Air Force, most were ...

13—Four additional KC-135 Stratotankers, the lynchpins of the U.S. military's aerial refueling ... years after the Air Force first stated its intention to move the planes to Alaska. There's still no ...

An Alaska Air National Guard KC-135 Stratotanker from the 168th Air Refueling ... Force first stated its intention to move the planes to Alaska. There’s still no firm timeline as to when the ...

None of the U.S. Air Force’s existing tanker aircraft were capable of holding ... The result was the KC-135Q, an entirely new variant of aircraft. With a top speed of Mach 3, a service ceiling ...