Locating and identifying foreign military land, naval and airborne ... are assigned to the 55th Wing at Offutt AFB, Neb. The RC-135U aircraft are manned by Air Combat Command crews from the ...

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 ...

In the afternoon, the reconnaissance aircraft RC-135W Rivet Joint from the British military was flying around the Kaliningrad Oblast, traversing the airspace of NATO member states. With the help ...

It joins two other Rivet Joint planes of the RC-135W variant that were already ... of the most advanced surveillance planes ...

Once upon a time, RC planes were expensive models that took months to build and big money to equip with electronics. Since the 20th century though, powerful batteries have become cheap ...