New service component operational concepts such as Agile Combat Employment (ACE), Forward Arming and Refueling Points (FARP), and the deployment and sustainment of multi-domain task forces have ...
A conceptual rendering showing the KC-390 Agile Tanker in USAF service offloading fuel to an F-35 receiver aircraft. (Embraer, L3Harris) Embraer and L3Harris are to equip the KC-390 Millennium with a ...
Embraer believes its KC-390 is well positioned to enter the US Air Force’s (USAF’s) future inventory in a proposed “Agile Tanker” guise, despite walking away from a partnership with a US-based ...
Test pilot Michael Gerzanics puts Embraer’s KC-390 transport/tanker through its paces and asks: how does it fare against Lockheed Martin’s long-established C-130 Hercules? Lockheed Martin has ...