March 19,2008: A U.S. Air Force RC-135 aircraft has set a record, spending over 50,000 hours in the air since it entered service in 1962. The main reason for all those hors in the air is that RC-135s ...

A RC-135 Rivet Joint maneuvers into position to be refueled behind a KC-135 Stratotanker, assigned to the 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron, while flying over Afghanistan in support of ...

Experience the precision and power of U.S. Air Force aerial operations as the Altus Joint Demo Team showcases a rare ...

The Boeing KC-135, nicknamed Stratotanker is an aerial refueling aircraft that has been in continuous service with the USAF for over 60 years with over 800 examples of the C-135 series built. The ...

Yesterday two USAF F-35A stealth aircraft performed a quick visit to Estonia. But their mission to the Baltic region was probably not only supported by a KC-135: an RC-135U and two RC-135Ws flew ...

A USAF RC-135V/W Rivet Joint disconnects from a USAF KC-10 Extender after receiving fuel near Iraq on Dec. 5, 2016. The RC-135 fleet has been present in every sizeable U.S. conflict since the ...

April 17, 2023: Last month there was a major new development in Finland, which recently became a NATO member. That was significant because for nearly a century Finland has been neutral, a policy that ...

Commercial aerial refuelling provider Metrea is continuing to build up its fleet of Boeing KC-135 tankers as it also readies ...

Oxygen leak caused April RC-135 fire, report says. ... The worst came in 2013, when a KC-135 refueling tanker crashed in the Kyrgyz Republic, killing all three crew members on board.

L-3 Communications has rolled out the first UK Royal Air Force RC-135 Airseeker signals intelligence (SIGINT) aircraft, the US Air Force's intelligence chief has revealed. "I was also, about three ...

The RC-135 we have here was captured in the main photo of this piece, just released by the U.S. Air Force while refueling from a KC-135R Stratotanker.

A KC-135 Stratotanker with the 22nd Air Refueling Wing at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan., arrives at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., May 18, 2017. (Louis Briscese/U.S. Air Force) ...