China has quietly rolled out a powerful new tool in its quest for air superiority and regional influence in the Indo-Pacific: ...

As the Prince of Wales CSG prepares to depart the Mediterranean and head through the Red Sea, the RAF has deployed additional ...

These range from tiny training aircraft to next-generation fast jets like the F-35 Lightning II to enormous freighters and tankers. This list includes the top five largest RAF aircraft currently in ...

The runway display of 53 Air Force and Navy planes — plus Army missiles — ranged from rescue helicopters to fighters and ...

Three spy planes also made an appearance in the elephant walk — one E-3G Sentry radar surveillance aircraft, one RC-135 Rivet Joint signals intelligence aircraft, and one P-8 Poseidon operated by the ...

"We reserve the right to navigate under international norms," the U.S. Pacific Air Forces previously told Newsweek.

Tracking data captured the US Air Force RC-135 Rivet Joint reconnaissance aircraft taking off from Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska on Monday, flying southwest to California. The Rivet Joint ...

Britain's defense ministry said on Wednesday that the UK will provide P-8 Poseidon and RC-135 Rivet Joint maritime patrol and surveillance aircraft to the Baltic Sentry initiative. The P-8 is a ...

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 ...

The Boeing RC-135RJ is named “Rivet Joint,” after its large, boxy panels that look haphazardly riveted on its otherwise aerodynamic body. The Rivet Joint started life as a version of the Boeing 707 ...

tailed the Rivet Joint, flying escort patterns ranging close-in, at 50 kilometers (31 miles) distance, flight data showed. A Cold War-era spy plane continually updated by Boeing, the RC-135 is crammed ...

Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. In a fumbled Kremlin intercept of an unescorted British RC-135 Rivet Joint in roughly the same air space on Sept. 29, 2022, a Russian Air ...