The MRTT program has several key advantages over comparable aircraft like the KC-135—chiefly its ability to draw from ...

India has ordered a handful of Boeing 767 planes to be converted into aerial tankers, with assistance from Israel.

Capt. Jordan Wesemann, a KC-135 tanker pilot, refueled his twin brother Jared's F-35 fighter jet during an exercise in Japan.

The three nations certified the KC-46 to refuel the RAAF E-7, and USAF and RAF also benefit from this as they prepare to field their own Wedgetails. The U.S., British and Australian air forces ...

The test is aimed at expanding the refueling envelope of the A400M to refuel a wide variety of NATO aircraft, and follows the first ever refueling of a V-22 in early 2025. A German Air Force ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Tennessee’s national lawmakers have announced that McGhee-Tyson Air National Guard Base in Blount County will become home to eight new KC-46 tanker aircraft. Senator Marsha ...

The Royal Air Force (RAF) Typhoons successfully conducted their first air-to-air refueling operations with a German Air Force Atlas A400M tanker aircraft. This new capability significantly enhances ...

The legendary F-35 Lighting II is in line to receive a propeller for greater air-to-air refueling capabilities. The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II continues to be touted as the most capable ...

Commercial aircraft, in lots of ways, are the typically slower and more practical relatives of military aircraft. The U.S. Air Force's fighter jets, for instance, are often armed with an array of ...

Three of the Air Force’s newest and most advanced refueling tankers sustained a combined $22 million in damage in similar airborne accidents when refueling probes became stuck in fighter jets during ...