All Rivet Joint airframe and mission systems modifications are overseen by L-3 Communications (previously Raytheon), under the oversight of Air Force Materiel Command. The current RC-135 fleet is ...

RJ is named Rivet Joint, after its large, boxy panels that look haphazardly riveted on its otherwise aerodynamic body. The ...

Small drones have been spotted in and around Royal Air Force Lakenheath, RAF Mildenhall, RAF Feltwell and RAF Fairford since ...

today announced that its airworthiness plan for the Merlin Pilot KC-135 testing has been accepted by the United States Air ...

A U.S. Air Force RC-135 Rivet Joint assigned to the 84th Reconnaissance Squadron conducts aerial refueling with a KC-135 Stratotanker assigned to the 909th Air Refueling Squadron over the coast of ...

There are only two Combat Sent aircraft in the Air Force inventory and both are assigned to the 55th Wing at Offutt AFB, Neb. The RC-135U aircraft are manned by Air Combat Command crews from the ...

More than 500 US Air Force (USAF) personnel and their families ... Squadron - will provide the support mission for the RC-135 surveillance aircraft. The base is already the only European base ...

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 ...