Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker News

The U.S. Air Force is expected to announce this week whether the 157th Air Refueling Wing at Pease has been selected as a potential future basing location for the new KC-46A air refueling tanker, a representative from U.S. Sen.

This morning, the Department of Defense announced the deaths of three Fairchild Air Force Base based Airmen who died when their KC-135 refueling plane crashed in Kyrgyzstan.

Two bodies at crash site where a U.S. plane went down Friday in Afghanistan were discovered, Reuters reports May 4. The exact location of the wreckage was in Kyrgyzstan where a cargo plane exploded while in mid-air. The fuel it was carrying ignited the explosion, investigators said.

A US military refuelling plane exploded in mid air and crashed in southern Kyrgyzstan, the Central Asian country's Emergencies Ministry said.

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Brazilian tactical transport jet KC-390 is about to enter the market as the main challenger to Lockheed Martin's C-130J Super Hercules but global domination is far from certain, analysts said.