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Included in Block 1 upgrades for the KC-46 is the Pegasus Advanced Communications Suite, which will upgrade the tanker’s Link 16 terminals along with new BLOS and anti-jam LOS satellite voice ...
In total, the service is asking to retire 340 aircraft in fiscal 2026, including 162 A-10s, 62 F-16C and Ds, 21 F-15Es, 13 ...
The service moved up the retirement of the final 162 close attack fighters by two years in a budget request and asked for far ...
Helena has an ace up its sleeve when it comes to firefighting aircraft, a tanker base that can support the largest ...
They’re one of the largest firefighting tanker planes in the world and have played a big part in supporting firefighters as they work to contain fires across the ...
Helena has an ace up its sleeve when it comes to firefighting aircraft, a tanker base that can support the largest ...
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — As fire season heats up, the U.S. Forest Service remains able to use only one of seven large, state-of-the-art air tanker planes it contracted last month to ...
In the past, we’ve used the DC-10 air tanker to battle major fires, so one viewer asked KPRC 2 Chief Meteorologist Anthony Yanez why it wasn't used during the Pauline Road Fire. Here's what he ...
While 10 Tanker is based in Albuquerque, they get sent all over the U.S. and the world. “We’re one of five in America, and we run the largest air tankers in the world, which are the DC-10s ...
10 Tanker Air Carrier’s fact sheet notes that its fleet of DC-10 tankers are supported by a team of seven maintenance technicians to remain ready for action. Each aircraft weighs between 390,000 and ...
The U.S. Air Force (USAF) held a decommissioning ceremony for the KC-10 Extender aerial tanker, plane to be replaced by the KC-46A Pegasus ...