NATO aircraft have frequently circled the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad since the start of the war in Ukraine.

Russia's Murmansk region, close to NATO member Finland, hosts several naval and airbases, and is home to a significant chunk ...

Data from the KC-30A and Boeing RC-135 air-to-air refueling will be used in a USAF flight test report, which will help facilitate a series of gateway checks, RAAF said.

The J-16 subsequently flew across the nose of the RC-135. Janes assesses that the J-16 crossed ahead of the RC-135 at a range of 200–300 m. The video shows the RC-135 encountering turbulence.

A British RC-135 Rivet Joint, the RAF’s premier signals intelligence aircraft, has once again been deployed on a critical ...

"The Lithuanian Air Force observed the object while it was on the territory of Belarus, the information was transferred to ...

The RC-135 family of reconnaissance platforms, built by China-sanctioned Boeing Defense, have been in use since the Cold War. The U.S. Air Force 's Combat Sent intelligence-collection aircraft ...

The ministry said it had scrambled a Sukhoi SU-30 fighter jet to intercept a British Boeing RC-135 reconnaissance plane which it said had been trying to get close to Crimea.

Notably, in October 2024 alone, the Boeing RC-135, a reconnaissance aircraft equipped with specialized systems for locating emitters, was present over Poland on at least two occasions.

According to the agency, US Boeing E-3 Sentry and Boeing RC-135 spy aircraft were in the air while Biden was staying in Ukraine.