Three U-28A Dracos - used by the US Air Force special operations command - stopped at Scottish -government owned Wick airport before heading north.

Reports claim fuel tanker aircraft flew from Pearl Harbor toward Iran amid rising US-Iran tensions, citing social media and flight radar data.

Unusual U.S. military activity is raising global alarm as American Air Force and Navy assets quietly reposition closer to Iran. Open-source intelligence analysts have detected a surge in KC-135 tanker movements across the Pacific,

Ten C-17 Globemasters and a pair of AC-130J have landed at two Royal Air Force bases, RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire and RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk

The White House says the crew can be brought to the US for prosecution “if necessary” - Russia’s foreign ministry earlier said the US must not hamper their return.

(The Hill) — A JetBlue pilot said a “midair collision” was avoided near Venezuela in an incident the commercial pilot is blaming on the pilot of a U.S. Air Force refueling tanker. “We almost had a midair collision up here,” the JetBlue pilot said ...

The tanker, originally called Bella 1, evaded a US naval blockade of sanctioned vessels near Venezuela last month.

(CNN) — Radio transmissions reviewed by CNN show that the pilots of a private jet narrowly avoided a collision with a United States Air Force refueling tanker near Venezuela on Saturday – one day after a similar incident nearby. CNN — (CNN) — Radio ...

WASHINGTON(AP) — A JetBlue flight from the small Caribbean nation of Curaçao halted its ascent to avoid colliding with a U.S. Air Force refueling tanker on Friday, and the pilot blamed the military plane for crossing his path. “We almost had a midair ...

A U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker assigned to the 100th Air Refueling Wing, provides fuel to an F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft assigned to the 48th Fighter Wing over Poland on November 19, 2025.