Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The US Air Force has stood up a new detachment at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson to meeting growing demand for RC-135V/W Rivet ...

Operationally, the RAF’s Rivet Joints have participated in missions worldwide, from counterterrorism in the Middle East to NATO exercises in Europe. With the United States possibly winding down its ...

A USAF RC-135 Rivet Joint arrives with an impressively smooth touchdown in front of aviation fans. The RC-135 pilot butters the landing, showing remarkable control of the large reconnaissance aircraft ...

A Chinese SAC J-16 fighter flies in front of a USAF RC-135V Rivet Joint aircraft over the South China Sea on 26 May 2023. This is a screen-grab from a video of the incident. (US Department of Defense) ...

Years after the Navy, the Air Force decided to supplement its tanker fleet with commercial aerial refueling services. The U.S. Air Force employed for the first time last month a commercial aerial ...

April 17, 2023: Last month there was a major new development in Finland, which recently became a NATO member. That was significant because for nearly a century Finland has been neutral, a policy that ...

Northrop Grumman will supply 30 high-accuracy LN-120G stellar navigation systems for U.S. Air Force RC-135 Rivet Joint reconnaissance aircraft, the company announced Aug. 3. The LN-120G is a Global ...

LONDON — The first RC-135W Rivet Joint intelligence-gathering aircraft for the U.K. Royal Air Force (RAF) has been delivered to its main operating base at RAF Waddington. The aircraft — ZZ664 — ...

A People’s Liberation Army J-16 Flanker multirole fighter performed an “unnecessarily aggressive” maneuver close to a U.S. Air Force RC-135 surveillance plane over the South China Sea recently, ...