Tanker maintenance workers spend their days crawling in and out of fuel tanks. New tech might make a hard job a little easier.

For fighter jets to project power any significant distance from their nation's borders, they need aircraft carriers, forward operating bases, lots of tankers, and other support elements (like transport aircraft).

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 tanker, replacing the KC-135 Stratotanker. In addition to ...

The U.S. Air Force currently operates 96 KC-46A refuelers, which Boeing is also upgrading with new hardware and software. Boeing announced on Nov. 26,

The reason why the F-22 could be considered the world's best fighter for air refueling is because of the incredible strategic and tactical force augmentation that the Raptor captures by leveraging the extra range granted to it from aerial refueling.

The Royal Air Force (RAF) Typhoons successfully conducted their first air-to-air refueling operations with a German Air Force Atlas A400M tanker aircraft. This new capability significantly enhances the RAF's flexibility and agility in air operations ...

Multiple players who are part of several partnerships have recently completed the trailblazing task of refueling aircraft with liquid hydrogen produced and stored for the first time at an international airport. The two aircraft are innovative, the storage ...

The U.S. Air Force took delivery of its 99th and 100th KC-46A Pegasus air-refueling tankers at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif.

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 missiles that you certainly won't find on your average ...

Business Insider embarked on a British Voyager aircraft to watch it refuel NATO fighter jets around Europe.