When military analysts war-game a conflict over Taiwan, the conversation inevitably turns to stealth fighters, carrier strike groups, and hypersonic missiles. What rarely makes the headlines — but ...

An AI-powered cockpit assistant has completed five flights aboard three operational U.S. Air Force ...

The goal is for AI to automatically analyze refueling operations from cameras mounted on the tankers and provide "hot wash" ...

The system is intended to help crews manage routine cockpit tasks, follow procedures, plan routes and monitor operational ...

The US Air Force is seeking companies that can return up to four retired KC-10 Extender tankers to flying condition and deliver them to an unnamed partner nation in North Africa, according to a ...

The Pacific would demand every tanker the USAF could muster, but how such a conflict would eventually evolve and end is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Airmen participate in a preflight brief in front of a KC-135 Stratotanker at Kadena Air Base, Japan, July 15, 2026. Aerial ...

America's next refuelling aircraft could become unmanned as the Air Force examines autonomy for future tanker designs ...

Beacon believes Murdock is the first commercially developed AI pilot assistant system to fly aboard multiple operational ...

Why the Pegasus doesn't roam very far... yet.

Aerial tankers might not have the same heroic image as jet fighters or the same firepower heavy bombers do, but their strategic importance is unrivaled in the day-to-day operations and movement of the ...

Congressional leaders threatened yesterday to withhold funding for one of the U.S. military's biggest aircraft programs because the $40 billion contract went to a group that includes a European ...