{"id":158528,"date":"2024-12-16T18:30:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T08:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-fast-facts-usaf-kc-135-stratotanker-replacement\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T18:30:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T08:30:15","slug":"5-fast-facts-on-the-usaf-kc-135-stratotanker-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=158528","title":{"rendered":"5 Fast Facts On The USAF KC-135 Stratotanker Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2025805\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/aerial-refueling-tankers-us-air-force-guide\/\" >KC-135 Stratotanker remains the backbone of the United States Air Force aerial refueling capability<\/a><\/span> (with around 376 remaining in service). However, the KC-135 is aging (it was replaced by the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739594\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 707<\/span><\/span> airliner and has been in             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> service since 1957). It is currently being partially replaced by the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"652032\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>KC-46 Pegasus<\/span><\/span> but may also be eventually replaced by future platforms like the Next Generation Air-Refueling System (NGAS). There is no one replacement for the KC-135.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The KC-135 is being partially replaced by the KC-46A and may be replaced by next-gen aircraft like JetZero BWB and Stunk Work&#8217;s NGAS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8316,396,120,7559,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-tanker","category-aircraft","category-europe","category-tanker","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158529,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158528\/revisions\/158529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}