The steeply banked go around by a KC-135 at RAF Mildenhall was not just a viral clip of a big jet muscling through the sky.

A USAF KC-135 tanker performed a steeply banked approach into RAF Mildenhall before initiating an unexpected go-around. The ...

The KC-46As will replace the base’s KC-135 Stratotankers, an airplane first developed in the 1950s. The new tankers, which ...

This list looks beyond formal service designations to examine the five largest and most strategically significant ...

The US military said it killed Al-Qaeda–linked leader Bilal Hasan al-Jasim in a Syria strike, tying him to a December ISIS attack that killed three Americans in Palmyra. The operation follows large-sc ...

President Trump’s intentions for Venezuela remain unclear—but the deployment of the KC-135s could be a prelude to extended aerial operations over South America. No one can quite figure out what ...

With top brass at the controls, the Air Force this week marked delivery of the 100th new KC-46A Pegasus aerial tanker built by Boeing. Air Force Lt. Gen. John Healy, chief of the Air Force Reserve, ...

A massive wave of U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotankers has moved into the Middle East, marking one of the largest aerial refueling deployments in recent months. Flight tracking shows aircraft departing ...

An E-6B Mercury assigned to the Strategic Communications Wing 1 at Tinker Air Force Base approaches a KC-135 Stratotanker assigned to the 92nd Air Refueling Wing during an aerial refueling mission ...

Work on the prototype KC-135 Drone Delivery Mechanism (DDM) was completed sometime in Fiscal Year 2024, which ended on Sept. 30 of last year. However, the milestone only appears to have been disclosed ...

Further details have come to light of a near-miss incident that took place in the airspace over eastern England earlier in 2025. The UK Airprox Board, the body which investigates such incidents (known ...