ANDREWS AFB, Maryland—Enabling communications between different platforms is a persistent challenge across the Joint Force. The U.S. Air Force believes it has a solution: turn the legacy KC-135 ...

The service owns about 360 KC-135s, plus around three dozen RC-135 and WC-135 variants that are based on the same Boeing-built fuselage. The Stratotanker fleet entered service in 1956, followed by ...

A KC-135 Stratotanker assigned to the 92nd Air Refueling Wing takes off during exercise Titan Fury 24-2 at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, March 22, 2024.

On the plus side, flying the KC-135 is “pretty systematically straightforward because it was designed and built in the late (1940s) and the early (1950s),” Fleck said.

Marlo Fleck might be the world’s most highly trained gas station attendant. That’s how Fleck, a 37-year-old U.S Air Force Reserve major, jokingly describes her job flying Boeing KC-135 ...

Flight testing of an autonomous KC-135 Stratotanker may begin next year. Boston’s Merlin Labs, Inc. and the U.S. Air Force’s 6th Air Refueling Wing at MacDill AFB, Fla., have been […] ...

A KC-135 Stratotanker assigned to the 452nd Air Mobility Wing’s 336th Air Refueling Squadron performs a flyover in Moreno Valley, Calif., May 14, 2020.