{"id":98786,"date":"2024-08-01T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T03:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/roles-kc-135-stratotanker-us-military-missions\/"},"modified":"2024-08-01T13:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T03:00:12","slug":"what-roles-did-the-kc-135-stratotanker-play-in-us-military-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=98786","title":{"rendered":"What Roles Did The KC-135 Stratotanker Play In US Military Missions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    In defiance of the original expectations that prevailed in the heady days of the Cold War, the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker has outlasted the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-usaf-retire-kc-10-extender\/\">McDonnell Douglas KC-10 Extender<\/a> (the latter will be fully retired less than two months from now) as the US Air Force&#8217;s go-to platform for midair refueling, and the Stratotanker will continue to hold the refueling line for at least a little while longer until Boeing&#8217;s KC-46 Pegasus is fully online. As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fairchild.af.mil\/News\/Features\/Display\/Article\/1631628\/the-kc-135-stratotanker-all-american-workhorse\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >Fairchild AFB Fact Sheets<\/a> state:    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The KC-135 outlasted the KC-10 as the USAF&#8217;s midair refueler. Simple Flying now examines the Stratotanker&#8217;s military mission roles.<\/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":[4259,396,397,398,8977,1384,11503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerial-refueling","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-boeing","category-cold-war","category-us-air-force","category-vietnam-war"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98786","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=98786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98787,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98786\/revisions\/98787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}