The MC-130J Commando II is intended to replace the aging MC-130E and P-model aerial refueling aircraft. The Commando II flies clandestine, or low visibility, single or multi-ship low-level air ...

While the KC-10’s primary mission is aerial refueling ... is based on the civilian DC-10 commercial aircraft and has been in service with the U.S. Air Force since 1981. Twenty KC-10s were ...

Dr. Kapseong Ro has developed a dynamic software model that accurately captures the motion of a hose-drogue assembly affected by the motion of a tanker and receiver aircraft during aircraft refueling ...

MH-47s are armed with M134 7.62mm electrically-operated, air-cooled gatling guns, fitted in firing the left port/right cabin ...

This aircraft, emerging from the NGAS (Next-Generation Air Refueling System) program, aims not only to replace the aging ...

Footage from inside an Israeli Air Force KC-707 Re’em tanker aircraft was recently published on the official IDF Instagram ...

according to an official statement from the 141st Air Refueling Wing. This exercise marks the first documented instance of an American aircraft refueling a Russian-origin fighter jet. The ...

Sep 8, 2024 Sep 8, 2024 Updated Dec 15, 2024 NEWINGTON — The New Hampshire Air ... refueling tankers in 2019, and now history is being made again with the first operational deployment of the ...

The aircraft were originally expected to arrive at Eielson in 2023, but that failed to happen. In October, Sullivan sent a stern letter to Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall asking ... that is ...