Boeing KC-46A

By Guy Norris
Northrop Grumman has partnered with JetZero in its bid to develop a full-scale blended-wing-body demonstrator as a tanker-transport for the U.S. Air Force.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force is planning the largest transatlantic crossing of combat aircraft since the lead-up to the 1990-1991 Gulf War this summer.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Boeing will record another charge on its star-crossed KC-46A tanker program for the U.S. Air Force.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
Officials call for clean-sheet designs, saying commercial-derivative refuelers are not survivable.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force wants to formally kill its KC-Y “Bridge Tanker” program as it accelerates its future Next Generation Air Refueling System.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
AMC recently directed a change to its fleet, removing the large “U.S. AIR FORCE,” unit markings, tail numbers and other identifying markings.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
As the USAF looks to develop uncrewed collaborative combat aircraft to fly with future fighters, the service is also rethinking how it organizes these fleets.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
Several key U.S. Air Force aircraft saw their mission-capable rates drop in fiscal 2022 compared to the prior year.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force wants an innovative refueling system to better operate in contested environments with a goal of operations beginning in 2040.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The KC-46’s developmental history is a story of U.S. Air Force work-arounds.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
As the service looks to cut KC-10s and KC-135s, it is expressing more confidence in the KC-46 despite continued deficiencies in its development.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The Israeli government has confirmed it will acquire a third squadron of Lockheed Martin F-35s as well as heavy-lift helicopters and advanced munitions as part of its new arms procurement program to update the Israeli Defense Forces.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Air Force has extended initial operational testing on the Boeing KC-46A for at least three years.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Boeing will slow production of 777 and 787 widebody twinjets as well as development of the next new aircraft program as it continues restructuring to
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Hudson
Boeing has installed valves on seven KC-46A Pegasus aircraft plugging the leaky fuel system the U.S. Air Force has deemed a major deficiency.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Hudson
Every facet of the problem-plagued Remote Vision System will be altered by Boeing for what the U.S. Air Force is calling "RVS 2.0."
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Hudson
Excessive fuel leaks discovered in July are severe enough the government thinks that lives or critical assets could be at risk.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Air Force is proposing the retirement of 13 KC-135s and 16 KC-10s in fiscal 2021, while the successor Boeing KC-46A Pegasus is not considered operationally viable.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
“We’re committed to see that through and see it through the right way,” new CEO David Calhoun said of the troubled tanker program.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
“We have to figure out a way to mitigate the delayed fielding of the KC-46,” the head of U.S. Transportation Command says.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Air Force has ended its three-month ban on KC-46A cargo and passenger operations.
Defense