In any conflict with China, aerial refueling will determine whether US fighters and bombers can operate from safe stand-off ...

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 ...

BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. (KSLA) — The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds will headline the 2025 Defenders of Liberty Air Show on March 29-30 at Barksdale Air Force Base. Hours will be 9 a.m.-4 p.m. each ...

The Air Force plans to buy 179 KC-46s over 13 lots and is nearing the end of its procurement. (Airman 1st Class Joshua Hastings/U.S. Air Force) The Air Force awarded Boeing a $2.4 billion contract ...

A KC-46 Pegasus refuels an F-16 at night, as seen through the updated version of the Remote Vision System, or RVS 2.0. (Boeing) The KC-46 Pegasus refueling tanker’s troubled remote vision system is ...

A new structural crack found in a subset of the Boeing KC-46 fleet should be fixed quickly, the head of Air Mobility Command said on March 20. The discovery prompted the U.S. Air Force to pause KC-46 ...

NEW HANOVER, N.J. (WPVI) -- New Jersey will finally see planes darting into the sky and speeding across a crowd of spectators watching from the ground. The Power in the Pines Air Show is back with ...

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 ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Employees at Spirit AeroSystems will benefit from a new Boeing order. The U.S. Air Force wants 15 more KC-46A Pegasus tankers. Spirit Aerosystems builds the KC-46A’s fuselage ...

The U.S. Air Force's KC-46 Pegasus tankers are experiencing malfunctions with their auxiliary power units (APUs). The APU failures are causing increased operational costs and complexity for the Air ...

TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 8, 2018 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) anticipates the first 18 deliveries of its KC-46 aerial refueling aircraft to the U.S. Air Force within the year, with four production units already ...

An artist's impression of a KC-46 in Israeli service. (Israeli MoD) The Israeli Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced on 20 August that it plans to order two more Boeing KC-46 air-to-air refuelling ...