Advanced sensors and surveillance equipment evolved the RC-135 from a commercial aircraft to one of the most famous and ...

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 ...

test equipment and prototype units. The ongoing production phase of the contract calls for delivery of the new units beginning in this year. The RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft provides near-real ...

Crew: Two pilots, one navigator, two airborne systems engineers, and a minimum of 10 electronic warfare officers (flight crew from 45th RS) and six or more mission area specialists The RC-135U ...

This enables U.S. defense planners to develop evasion techniques and equipment that can "detect ... The Air Force's Combat Sent aircraft belong to the RC-135 family of reconnaissance airframes ...

The RC-135 model is based on the Boeing C-135 Stratolifter transport design. It is approximately 136 feet long, with a wingspan of about 131 feet. This aircraft can reach a maximum speed of 580 ...

Equipment racks tore loose from the walls ... and we knew that they would have loved an excuse to nail an RC-135. An RC is no match for a MiG, and since they had downed an RB-47H in 1960, we ...

“What passes for dangerous and provocative today was ho-hum to recon crews of my generation” former RC-135 commander says On Apr. 7, a U.S. RC-135U spyplane, was intercepted over the Baltic ...

INDOPACOM added that the Chinese “pilot flew directly in front of the nose of the RC-135, forcing the US aircraft to fly through its wake turbulence”. This action describes the buffeting ...

A oxygen leak in the high-pressure oxygen system caused an April 30 fire that heavily damaged an RC-135V Rivet Joint at ... Air Force Safety Center, the C-135 airframe – which includes the ...