House and Senate versions of the FY2026 NDAA offer competing visions for the Air Force's refueling fleet, threatening to ...

After decades of service, a legendary tanker says farewell. Alan de Herrera A retired KC-10 Extender known as Excalibur awaits a six-day mothballing process at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, ...

For those with dreams of owning their own fleet of aerial refuellers, the opportunity of a lifetime is about to close. The Pentagon is selling 10 of its retired Boeing KC-10 Extender tankers via ...

A U.S. Air Force KC-10 Extender from the 908th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron refuels French Air Force Rafale C and ...

On Apr. 10, 2025, a C-17 from Joint Base Lewis-McChord became the first in the U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command to take fuel from a commercially contracted KDC-10B. Omega Air Refueling, based in ...

A new U.S. Air Force analysis recommends continuing the development of NGAD, as well as terminating the NGAS stealth tanker program which was supposed to support the next gen fighter in contested ...

The Air Mobility Command (AMC) is a late hold-out. The KDC-10 had previously been contracted to refuel Air Force aircraft including the F-15, F-16, F-22, B-52, and MC-130J. For the first time ever, ...

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 ...