Airpower without range is just potential. Every long-range bomber mission, every sustained fighter patrol over a contested theater, every rapid deployment of troops across oceans — all of it depends ...

A KC-46 takes off on a delivery flight from Boeing Field in Seattle in December 2023. Credit: U.S. Air Force The U.S. Air Force has not taken delivery of KC-46 tankers from Boeing in more than two ...

JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. – Aircrews and maintainers assigned to the 305th Air Mobility Wing hosted U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Charles D. Bolton, 18th Air Force commander, Chief Master Sgt.

Airband listeners heard an F-16 pilot report ‘a chunk taken out of its spine due to a too close breakaway incident’ during refueling operations with a KC-46. On June 27, 2024 an inflight refueling ...

Credit: U.S. Air Force The U.S. Air Force is pressing to field a next-generation aerial refueling system by as soon as 2036, making a competition for a near-term buy unaffordable, the service says in ...

Its shocking 0.23 MPG figure seems terrible, but the real answer lies in what the tanker does with its fuel.

MCCONNELL AIR FORCE BASE, Kan. – McConnell is the original home of the KC-46A Pegasus. The KC-46 took its first flight in 2014, and in 2019, the 373rd Training Squadron’s Detachment 8 began to train ...

Airframer is positioning the KC-390 as a supplement to the Boeing KC-46, rather than an alternative. i The price is displayed as a monthly rate (VAT excl.), but payment is made annually. Please refer ...