The KC-135 Stratotanker, which has been in service since 1957, refuels America’s bombers, carries cargo, and even ...

Every time a B-52 Stratofortress thunders toward a target thousands of miles from the nearest friendly airfield, or a B-2 ...

Boeing continues to provide recurring engineering services for the KC-135 Stratotanker. Boeing has obtained a $14.51 million contract modification from the US Air Force Life Cycle Management Center to ...

The KC-135 made its debut on Aug. 31, 1956, and still remains vital even as the Air Force continues to modernize its air ...

A KC-135 Stratotanker from Royal Air Force Mildenhall, England, refuels a pair of F-16 Fighting Falcons in flight. The first U.S. Air Force KC-135 aerial refueling airplane being rolled out from the ...

The U.S. Air Force (USAF) has made a habit of releasing with regularity images of its machines in action. It does so, probably, for two reasons. First, spectacular images have a great chance of ...

A crazy cool video shows something you don’t see too often: a KC-135 tanker in the famous “Mach Loop” low flying area. Certain scarcely populated areas of the UK, known as ‘Low Flying Areas’ (LFAs) ...

Calls for a specific squawk code to be designated for gliders have emerged after a USAF KC-135 Stratotanker came within 15 metres of colliding with a glider over Eastern England. On Apr. 8, 2025, a KC ...

Rockwell Collins prevails over six other bids to provide new COTS SATCOM solution for KC-135. Inmarsat SATCOM equipment on the KC-135 Stratotanker will be replaced by Collins Aerospace under a $27 ...

There is no doubt about the fact the KC-135 Stratotanker is one capable flying machine, but no one can really say this flying gas station is a mean-looking (or mean-acting) beast. Yet, this is exactly ...

The KC-135 Stratotanker has been in service since 1954. Using computation fluid dynamics, the Air Force discovered it can improve the plane’s aerodynamic efficiency by one percent simply by changing ...