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

A U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft assigned to the 74th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron conducts an air ...

Families gathered in the 185th Iowa Air Guard hangar to welcome home members of the 185th Air Refueling Wing after a ...

The C-17’s performance allows for the rapid reinforcement of forward bases that larger strategic lifters like the C-5 cannot ...

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 ...

The 185th Air Refueling Wing has been working to secure funding for four infrastructure projects to maintain mission readiness.

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

The McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base in Knoxville will be a main operating base for the new KC-46 Pegasus aircraft. The KC-46 Pegasus is the U.S. Air Force's next-generation aerial refueling ...

The U.S. Navy's E-2 Advanced Hawkeye is a carrier-borne Airborne Command and Control aircraft that has acted as a nerve center and protective umbrella for carrier groups for decades. Although the ...

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

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - He started his military career following in his father’s footsteps in the Iowa Air National Guard at the 185th Air Refueling Wing, now he returns as Wing Commander. Growing up in ...