5月30日,美国堪萨斯州康麦奈尔空军基地内,一架KC-135加油机的前起落架突然自动收起,导致飞机的机头部分砸在了地面上。当时飞机上有三名机组成员和两名维修技术人员,事故没有造成人员伤亡。美国媒体报道,目前针对事故,军方已经成立了专案组,具体 ...
作为美国空军空中加油体系的核心支柱,KC-135 Stratotanker通过持续的技术升级,尤其是KC-135R型号的诞生,在半个多世纪的服役历程中始终保持着强大的战略活力。这款以发动机换装为核心改造的加油机,不仅突破了初代型号的性能瓶颈,更通过多任务能力拓展与 ...
“老兵”落幕,为新加坡空军部队服务20多年后,四架一代空中添油机KC-135R正式退役。 空军战斗机在远程飞行中油耗量大,添油机就如“幕后英雄”,扮演在空中给战斗机补给额外燃料的重要角色。在2000年编入第112中队的KC-135R空中添油机,退役之前就曾在重要 ...
The U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command has suggested their KC-135 Stratotanker fleet may serve beyond 2050 with a life extension and upgrade program. Almost 70 years after the type’s first flight, ...
KC-135R with tiger motif. The photographs in this post were taken on Jun. 22 at McGuire Air Force Base, NJ, by Richard Porcelli. They show a special 141st Air Refueling Squadron (108th Wing, NJ ANG) ...
Rockwell Collins has been selected to improve the communications capabilities of the US Air Force’s KC-135R fleet with the implementation of a Real Time Information in the Cockpit (RTIC) system, the ...
近日,美军KC-135R/T加油机机群从美本土飞往欧洲,这意味着北约或有“大动作”。据开源网络情报(OSINT)信息显示,当地 ...
The Turkish Air Force has seven KC-135s (pictured) that it is looking to replace with either the KC-46A or the MRTT. (Janes/Patrick Allen) Türkiye is to decide between the Boeing KC-46A Pegasus and ...
The U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command has suggested their KC-135 Stratotanker fleet may serve beyond 2050 with a life extension and upgrade program. Almost 70 years after the type's first flight, ...
Supported by USAF tankers, the ex-Danish F-16s reached South America, carrying inert missiles for aerodynamic balance during ...
DAYTON — A new historic plane is set to be arriving at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force today. The KC-135R Stratotanker is set to be landing around 9:30 a.m., according to the museum’s ...