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 ...

RC-135 Rivet Joint: British Surveillance Intensifies ... and the visibility of the aircraft is intentional, so both 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 ...

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 ...

The aircraft took off from RAF Waddington in the morning before flying all over the county, as far north as Ingham and as far south as Lutton. The Boeing RC-135 is a dedicated electronic ...

According to the US military, the clip shows the Chinese pilot crossing within 121 metres (400ft) of the nose on a US Air Force RC-135 surveillance plane in the South China Sea. Four party leaders ...

According to the National Defense Control Center, the Su-27 crew identified the airborne target as a US Air Force RC-135 plane and escorted it over the Black Sea without allowing it to violate the ...