The USAF is likely to keep the Rivet Joint flying past 2050, 90 years after entering service. The absence of a planned ...

The Boeing RC-135 is the most effective American spyplane you’ve never heard of. It’s the John Paul Jones to the SR-71’s Robert Plant—a quiet workhorse that has flown over countless US missions while ...

A U.S. spy plane was spotted flying near the borders of China and North Korea this week on a suspected intelligence-collection mission, as shown on a new Newsweek map. Newsweek has contacted the ...

Increased demand for RC-135V/W Rivet Joint spy plane sorties in the Pacific has led the U.S. Air Force to create a new unit in Alaska to help manage those operations. From Joint Base ...

L3 Technologies has delivered the third and final RC-135V/W Rivet Joint signals intelligence aircraft to the UK’s Royal Air Force (RAF). The three Rivet Joint aircraft will form the backbone of the ...

WASHINGTON — An Air Force reconnaissance airplane caught fire in April, endangering the lives of 27 airmen aboard the plane — all because a retaining nut connecting oxygen tubing was not tightened ...

On Aug. 28, a U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bomber flew through international air space over the Black Sea. Russian air force Su-27 fighters rose to the meet the B-52, zooming so close to the ...

An Air Force reconnaissance airplane caught fire in April, endangering the lives of 27 airmen aboard the plane -- all because a retaining nut connecting oxygen tubing was not tightened properly, ...

An Air Force reconnaissance airplane caught fire in April, endangering the lives of 27 airmen aboard the plane – all because a retaining nut connecting oxygen tubing was not tightened properly, ...