{"id":386927,"date":"2026-03-15T06:51:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T20:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tanker-fleet-strain-five-us-kc-135-saudi-strikes\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T06:51:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T20:51:44","slug":"tanker-fleet-strain-five-more-us-air-force-kc-135s-out-of-action-after-saudi-air-base-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=386927","title":{"rendered":"Tanker Fleet Strain: Five More US Air Force KC-135s Out Of Action After Saudi Air Base Strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five Boeing KC-135 tankers belonging to the <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> have been hit during a strike from Iran on the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/largest-us-air-force-bases-land-area\/\" >Prince Sultan Air Base<\/a> (PSAB), located in Al Kharj, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"205737\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/saudi-arabia\/\"  >Saudi Arabia<\/a><\/span>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/livecoverage\/us-israel-iran-war-news-2026\/card\/five-air-force-refueling-planes-hit-in-iranian-strike-on-saudi-arabia-wHYFMW2YG3p0rwH3HaGU\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >According to the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, the five tanker planes were parked on the ground and were hit with an Iranian missile strike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five US Air Force KC-135 tankers damaged in a surprise Iranian missile strike on the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia.<\/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":[19759,396,412,988,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2026-iran-crisis","category-aircraft","category-military","category-saudi-arabia","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\/386927","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=386927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386928,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386927\/revisions\/386928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}