Sixteen aircraft dropped 124,000 pounds of ordnance in less than two minutes during a Feb. 1 airstrike in Somalia, a defense ...

How long can a fighter jet fly for without aerial refueling? Discover why the US Navy utilizes its most sophisticated fighter jets to fuel other aircraft, how aerial refueling can help airplanes save ...

The tanker qualification partnership paves the way for an extended reach and enhanced interoperability for allied airpower, ...

who flies KC-46A Pegasus tankers for the 344th Air Refueling Squadron at McConnell Air Force Base in Kansas, refueled a Navy EA-18G Growler formation – one of which included her brother ...

Following the adoption of the eight-bladed NP2000 propeller, the U.S. Navy launched an effort to regain the air refueling capability across its fleet and allow the C/KC-130T to refuel a growing ...

A KC-130T equipped with NP2000 in a air-to-air refueling test flight. [Courtesy: U.S. Navy] U.S. Navy Reserve KC-130T Hercules tankers upgraded with a new eight-blade composite propeller system ...

pilots at Rockwell Field in San Diego — now part of Naval Air Station North Island — set out to achieve mid-flight refueling in the early 1920s. They succeeded, with the milestone coming just ...

marking the USAF’s first use of commercial air tanker services. It’s been two decades since Omega began refueling Navy/Marine Corps aircraft in 2001, first as a subcontractor to another firm ...

The refueling sorties were also adding hours to ... it can carry almost any other type of Navy air-to-ground ordnance as well, including GPS-guided JDAM bombs, the Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW ...

The Navy recently outfitted an aircraft carrier ... In 2021, the drone was tested aboard the Bush, conducting the first air-to-air refueling of an F-18 Super Hornet and F-35 Lightning II, both ...

This ship completed its mid-life refueling and overhaul in 2009. This took three years and cost $3 billion. The N in CVN means nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Until the 1970s the navy only had CVs, ...