For decades, aerial refueling boom operators guided the fuel boom by looking directly out a window at the aircraft behind them. The new KC-46 Pegasus tanker changed that system completely. Instead of ...

The companies on Thursday said they made a joint investment to "evolve" Embraer's twin-engine KC-390 Millennium into a ...

The Air Force is in the early stages of the Next-Generation Air Refueling System (NGAS) program, a full-scale acquisition effort to follow the KC-46. An analysis of alternatives is underway, with the ...

As the Air Force aims to correct Category 1 deficiencies on the Boeing KC-46A Pegasus tanker, the service is poised to buy a ...

The idea of a KC-390 with a boom has gotten a new breath of life, and could be ideal for bringing fuel to far-flung edges of ...

Boeing lost $565 million on its Air Force KC-46 tanker program in the last quarter of 2025, according to a Thursday earnings call, pushing the company’s total losses on the effort to roughly $8 ...

The Air Force is planning to lean heavily on its fleet of KC-46 Pegasus tankers -- and some modifications to legacy platforms -- to refuel aircraft mid-air while officials continue to assess a second ...

Embraer and Northrop Grumman are jointly investing to evolve Embraer's KC-390 Millennium into a multi-mission tanker by adding an autonomous flying boom system. This upgrade will enable the KC-390 to ...