US Air Force pilots take off in a KC-135 Stratotanker from a base in Central Asia to support aircraft conducing airstrikes in Syria, Sept. 23, 2014. US Central Command (CENTCOM) forces on Tuesday ...

An operational U.S. Air Force KC-135 tanker equipped with an artificial intelligence (AI) driven ‘copilot’ from autonomous ...

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Merlin, the leading developer of safe, autonomous flight technology for fixed-wing aircraft, today announced that its ...

Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works has revealed concept imagery for the KC-Z, a next-generation stealth aerial refueling tanker ...

Enlisting in September 2002, Veres' first duty station was Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas, where he ...

On June 20, 1981, Theresa Claiborne was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force’s first Black female pilot, Claiborne would become the first Black woman to command and ...

McConnell may not be the biggest Air Force refueling base, but it is the only one that houses both KC-135 and KC-46 tankers.

The deployment of the 305th EARS represents the beginning of an enduring presence of the KC-46A Pegasus in the CENTCOM AOR, ...

As a space buff, I knew the KC-135 was used to train astronauts for weightlessness. But its main mission is USAF aircraft ...

If you drive along Tehachapi Boulevard in the vicinity of Kohnen’s Country Bakery, the VFW Post and Auntie’s Em’s Antiques, ...

If Boeing's new leadership proves out, the new union agreement is ratified, and other changes are made, it might "finally" be ...