The U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command has suggested their KC-135 Stratotanker fleet may serve beyond 2050 with a life extension and upgrade program. Almost 70 years after the type's first flight, ...

The Air Force may have to keep its aging KC-135 tankers flying beyond their planned 2050 retirement, depending on how many new tankers it buys in coming years and whether a next-generation ...

Current tests on the MQ-9 are being conducted in Syracuse, New York, and there is growing interest from the KC-46 and KC-135 tanker communities after successful demonstrations at the Air Reserve ...

American B-52H bombers have returned to their home base across the Atlantic after a month stationed at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire. There were here as part of the latest Bomber Task Force ...

A U.S. Air Force press release on Mar. 14 identified the formation as being led by an F-35C from Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA 97), accompanied by two USAF F-35As from the 134th Expeditionary ...

The USAF’s eight C-32As, of which only four are officially acknowledged for unknown reasons, are of mixed ages. Some were procured new from Boeing while others were purchased second hand from ...

A British RC-135 Rivet Joint, the RAF’s premier signals intelligence aircraft, has once again been deployed on a critical reconnaissance mission over the Black Sea, monitoring Russian military ...