The current RC-135 fleet is the latest iteration of modifications to this pool of -135 aircraft going back to 1962. Initially employed by Strategic Air Command to satisfy nationally tasked ...

The deployment of the RC-135 spy planes came as the U.S. military ... as well as stationing the F-35A stealth fighter jets at Kadena. Meanwhile, two U.S. B-1B bombers staged an exercise with ...

An accompanying photograph, taken from an interceptor fighter jet of Japan's Air Self-Defense Forces, showed the distinct ...

The current RC-135S aircraft trace their lineage to C-135 aircraft originally modified in 1961 and operated in 24-hour alert status out of Shemya AFB, Alaska. In 1994, all RC-135S aircraft and ...

MOSCOW, June 20. /TASS/.Russian Su-27 fighter jets consecutively intercepted two US RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft, with one of them making a provocative turn towards the Russian plane ...