How U.S. Air Force Is Evolving Its Tanker Plans

Brian Everstine April 14, 2022
A Boeing KC-46A comes in to land at an austere airfield in Guam in February 2022.
Credit: U.S. Air Force
For years, U.S. Air Force and U.S. Transportation Command leaders have sounded the alarm on the state of America’s refueling tanker fleet. TRANSCOM leaders said the KC-135 and KC-10 fleets were the most stressed part of their enterprise as the command and the service’s Air Mobility Command (AMC)...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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