The U.S. Air Force has signed off on a plan to put AI in the left seat of its KC-135 tanker fleet. Autonomous flight ...

The USAF has approved Merlin’s AI-driven pilot for testing on the KC-135 Stratotanker with flight trials slated for 2025.

This joint USAF and Merlin project will evaluate the viability of scaling the AI copilot to large transport aircraft, ...

In an extreme demonstration of US Air Force interoperability, a US aerial refueler refuels Russian-built fighter planes.

Autonomy company Merlin can begin the process of introducing certain software-controlled cockpit actions in Boeing KC-135 ...

Come onboard for a tour of the KC-46 Pegasus with us at McConnell AFB! The Air Force is buying 179 of them under a $4.9 ...

As a space buff, I knew the KC-135 was used to train astronauts for weightlessness. But its main mission is USAF aircraft ...

This marks the first publicly acknowledged instance of a U.S. Air Force KC-135 tanker refueling a Russian-made Su-30MKM ...

If Boeing's new leadership proves out, the new union agreement is ratified, and other changes are made, it might "finally" be ...

On June 20, 1981, Theresa Claiborne was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force’s first Black female pilot, Claiborne would become the first Black woman to command and ...

An operational U.S. Air Force KC-135 tanker equipped with an artificial intelligence (AI) driven ‘copilot’ from autonomous ...