Through the years, the KC-135 has been altered to do other jobs ranging from flying command post missions to reconnaissance. RC-135s are used for special reconnaissance and Air Force Materiel ...

The U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command has suggested their KC-135 Stratotanker fleet may serve beyond 2050 with a life extension and upgrade program. Almost 70 years after the type’s first ...

The Boeing KC-135 ... 800 examples of the C-135 series built. The first jet powered refueling tanker for the Air Force, the KC135 was conceived to refuel long range strategic bombers at the ...

Johnny Lamontagne, head of Air Mobility Command, told Defense One during the State of Defense series. How long the KC-135 might serve will depend on the service’s tanker strategy, which has ...

A fleet of U.S. Air ... and strategic military transport aircraft developed by Boeing from its 767 jet airliner. In 2011, the U.S. Air Force chose it to replace older Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker ...