Military aircraft don't have time to land and refuel on sensitive missions. That's where aerial refueling tankers come in.

The era of the lumbering, unescorted tanker orbiting safely behind the front lines is ending. For decades, aircraft like the ...

Aerial refueling sounds straightforward enough — one aircraft passes fuel to another mid-flight. But when that mission ...

A KC-46 Pegasus tanker lost its entire refueling boom during an F-22 Raptor refueling mission, causing costly damage.

Lockheed Martin's famous-but-secret Skunk Works has released a sort-of-new image of a concept for the company's Next Generation Aerial Refueling System (NGAS) military tanker aircraft for in-flight ...

Simulations consistently point to the vulnerability of larger refuelers concentrated at a handful of airfields.

The KC-46A aircraft are still relatively new, but will probably serve only as a “bridge” to the widespread adoption of the “Next Generation Air-refueling System” stealth tankers. Unlike the Air ...

Autonomous aerial refuelling control systems enable unmanned and optionally manned aircraft to perform precise rendezvous and docking manoeuvres with tanker platforms without direct human intervention ...

The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker is a widely used aerial refueling plane that's been in continuous service with the United States Air Force for over 60 years. The Stratotanker looks a lot like a Boeing ...

The U.S. Navy's E-2 Advanced Hawkeye is a carrier-borne Airborne Command and Control aircraft that has acted as a nerve center and protective umbrella for carrier groups for decades. Although the ...

As the camera slowly pans across the tarmac, three members in China's Y-20 large domestic transport aircraft family - the ...

Autonomous aerial refuelling systems using vision-based techniques combine advanced computer vision, machine learning and control systems to enable unmanned and crewed aircraft to maintain continuous ...