{"id":359646,"date":"2026-01-31T23:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/kc-767-kc-135-size-comparison\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T23:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T13:00:18","slug":"is-a-boeing-kc-767-tanker-bigger-than-a-kc-135-stratotanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=359646","title":{"rendered":"Is A Boeing KC\u2011767 Tanker Bigger Than A KC\u2011135 Stratotanker?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are four primary types of tankers today: the KC-135 Stratotanker, the KC-46A Pegasus, the Airbus A330 MRTT, and a few legacy Il-78s in service with some countries. Additionally, there is the newly developed Chinese Xi&#8217;an Y-20 tanker variant and <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2033192\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-retires-final-kc-10-extender-tanker-43-years-service\/\" >the recently retired US KC-10 Extender tanker<\/a><\/span>. Other aircraft, like the KC-130J, can provide probe and drogue refueling, but aren&#8217;t of interest here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The KC-46A is a larger aircraft from start to finish, being bigger, carrying more fuel, carrying it further, and carrying out more missions.<\/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":[396,499,11221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing-767","category-kc-46-pegasus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359646","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=359646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359647,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359646\/revisions\/359647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}