Built to revolutionize aerial refueling, this next-generation tanker promised big gains — but its path to service has been ...

A boom operator on a KC-135 tanker earned two Distinguished Flying Crosses on recent combat missions, the Air Force confirmed this week, a rare double-award of the military’s top medal for flight.

This photo provided by the U.S. Department of Defense shows a North American Aerospace Defense Command F-16 fighter refueling from a KC-135 Stratotanker over western Alaska on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026.

(Bloomberg) -- All six crewmembers aboard a KC-135 refueling aircraft that crashed over western Iraq are confirmed dead, US Central Command said. The tanker crashed in an incident on Thursday ...

ROUTE FOR ABOUT A FIFTH OF THE WORLD’S OIL. MEANWHILE, IN THE MIDDLE EAST AS WELL, OFFICIALS ARE STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT CAUSED A REFUELING PLANE TO CRASH IN WESTERN IRAQ THURSDAY. THAT WAS ...

High above the frozen expanse of the Arctic, where temperatures plunge to -40°F and the magnetic north pole plays havoc with ...