Retired Air Force Col. Troy Pananon offers candid insights into the strain a fight with China would put on the tanker fleet.

All six crew members aboard a U.S. KC-135 aerial tanker that crashed in Iraq on March 12 have been confirmed dead.

The Remote Vision System and the fly-by-wire Boom Telescope Actuator fall short of complete operational standards.

Retired Colonel Troy Pananon knows just how big a toll Epic Fury is taking on the fleet, its maintainers, and aircrews.

The Air Force removed parachutes from its KC-135 refueling tankers years ago. A former Republican Congressman who once flew ...

A senior United States Air Force official has warned that Boeing must resolve persistent technical problems with its KC-46 aerial refueling tanker before the military will consider placing additional ...

Days after a U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker crashed in western Iraq on March ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — All six crew members of a KC-135 refueling aircraft supporting operations against Iran are dead, the U.S. military said Friday, after their plane crashed in western Iraq. The ...

NATO’s Multinational Multi-Role Tanker Transport Unit (MMU) has declared full operational capability, fewer than six years since the first aircraft was delivered. The Netherlands-led unit, based in ...

Welcome back to the Fluctus Channel. Join us as we take a flight in an aerial refueling tanker. Fluctus is a website and ...

FILE - A U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker refueling tanker aircraft takes off from the Kadena Air Base airfield in Kadena town, west of Okinawa, southern Japan, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. (AP ...