“As we take the time to appreciate the legacy and history of the KC-10, we also have an opportunity to look forward to the future of tanker operations. I am excited to watch the same sense of ...

This new tanker utilizes an advanced KC-10 boom, a center mounted drogue and wing aerial refueling pods allowing it to refuel multiple types of receiver aircraft as well as foreign national ...

"This aircraft, like all the aircraft in our KC-10 fleet, has served honorably and ... for integrating the KC-46 into the Total Force tanker enterprise. Select portions of the legacy tanker ...

The follow-on KC-Y contract to replace the larger KC-10 tanker (whose last airframe has been recently retired by the USAF) was similarly awarded to the Boeing KC-46 Pegasus, with a further 140 ...

The tanker was designed to replace the aging fleet ... new tankers to satisfy its refueling needs, especially with the KC-10 already retired and the KC-135’s approaching the 70 years of service.

Lockheed Martin's C-130s have been sold to 65 countries. Other than the base C-130 transport, the KC-130 tanker is the 2nd most desired for export.

While the KC-10’s primary mission is aerial refueling, it can accommodate 75 passengers and transport 170,000 pounds of cargo. The Extender is based on the civilian DC-10 commercial aircraft and ...

The Air Force may have to keep its aging KC-135 tankers flying beyond their planned 2050 retirement, depending on how many ...

the average age of the remaining KC-135s will be 67 years old, Gen... Transcom Chief Pumps Up New Tanker Proposal is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation Week Intelligence ...

Prospects for a stealthy NGAS tanker have been on a roller-coaster ride. The concept emerged in 2006 as part of the Air Force’s three-phase approach to replacing more than 400 aging KC-135s.