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 ...

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 92nd Air Refueling Wing takes off during exercise Titan Fury 24-2 at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, March 22, 2024.

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 ...