Sometime in early 2025, a B-21 Raider pulled up behind a KC-135 Stratotanker over the California desert, locked onto the ...
Six crew members were killed when a US Air Force refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq on Thursday, US Central Command announced Friday morning. The Tampa, Fla.-based command said the crash of ...
A U.S. KC-135 tanker declared an in-flight emergency over Qatar.
It first flew in 1956, when Dwight D. Eisenhower was president. It carries 200,000 pounds of fuel, siphoned away midair through a metal tube. And it doesn’t have parachutes, trapping crews during a ...
U.S. Air Force HC-130 King Combat II assigned to the 71st Rescue Squadron, perform air-to-air refueling operations with A-10 ...
The Pentagon identified the six service members killed when a U.S. KC-135 refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq on Thursday. Three of the Air Force airmen were assigned to the 6th Air Refueling ...