The RC-135V/W Rivet Joint reconnaissance aircraft supports theater and national level consumers with near real time on-scene intelligence collection, analysis and dissemination capabilities.
The Royal Air Force has worked with the U.S. Air Force to test and validate ‘hot’ refuelling procedures for the RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft. Hot refuelling is when an aircraft is refuelled after ...
Based on data captured by the aircraft tracking service Flightradar24, Newsweek's map showed that a Kadena-based Rivet Joint aircraft, designed for detecting, identifying, and geolocating ...
But now three senior Western defence sources with knowledge of the incident have told the BBC that Russian communications intercepted by the RAF RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft give a very different ...