The crash of Flight 664 on March 15, 1981, was a harsh reminder of the risks members of the Fightin’ Fifty-Fifth take daily. The 55th lost six members of their unit when an RC-135S Cobra Ball ...

Cobra Ball 664 is refueled in midair over Alaska on its last flight, shortly before it crashed at Shemya island in the Aleutians. Two modern-day Offutt Air Force Base airmen laid a wreath Tuesday ...

You can monitor online the U.S. RC-135S Cobra Ball aircraft used to track ballistic missiles reentry vehicles and warheads during the final phase of flight. Early in the morning on Jul. 4 ...

An open-source intelligence analyst active on X (formerly Twitter), @MeNMyRC1, who tracks American spy planes, said this is the second missile-tracking aircraft, also known as Cobra Ball ...