Fighter jets conducted aerial refuelling during a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) training exercise. The U.S. Air Force fighter aircraft roared through the skies over the North Sea as ...

Presently, two aerial refueling methods are practiced. One method uses a hose-drogue-probe assembly for the delivery of fuel. Alternatively, probe-drogue refueling (PDR) involves coupling a probe on a ...

The aircraft is based on the Voyager Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) that serves in the RAF's aerial refueling (AR) fleet. Vespina is based on the Airbus A330 widebody twin-engine ...

RAF Atlas C1 transport was met by a RAF Voyager ... using what is known as the probe-and-drogue system. This sees a refueling probe extend from the front of the Atlas, above the cockpit, with ...

Eglin Air Force Base, Florida — Approximately 3,000 feet above the Eglin range, the HH-60W Jolly Green II connected with a HC-130J tanker for the first ever aerial refueling by the Air Force's ...

LONDON—UK Royal Air Force (RAF) Eurofighter Typhoons shot down three Iranian one-way attack drones as part of the aerial ...

2020 The 100th Air Refueling Wing has taken “immediate corrective action” after its official Twitter page for RAF Mildenhall in the United Kingdom “liked” a tweet from President Donald ...

Cancel anytime. An RC-135V Rivet Joint, 64-14843, makes a landing at RAF Mildenhall in 2020. The same aircraft suffered a partial electrical failure during aerial refueling over the Caribbean Sea ...

As part of a Royal Air Force capability demonstration ... as well as large industrial equipment anywhere in the world with aerial refueling. Without aerial refueling, the C-17’s range is ...

Nearly all internal fuel can be pumped through the boom, drogue and wing aerial refueling pods. The centerline drogue and wing aerial refueling pods are used to refuel aircraft fitted with probes.

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 ...