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The Boeing RC-135 is a family of large reconnaissance aircraft built by Boeing and modified by a number of companies, including General Dynamics, Lockheed, LTV, E-Systems, L3Harris Technologies, and used by the United States Air Force and Royal Air Force to support theater and national level intelligence consumers with near real-time on-scene collection, analysis and dissemination capabilities.
A Boeing RC-135S Cobra Ball assigned to the 24th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron operating out of Eielson Air Force Base in Fairbanks, Alaska crashed while attempting to land in poor weather at Eareckson Air Station (then known as Shemya Air Force Base) in the Alaskan Aleutian Islands. The cause of the crash was the pilots misidentifying ...
The 338th Combat Training Squadron is a United States Air Force unit. It is assigned to the 55th Operations Group, stationed at Offut Air Force Base, Nebraska.The 338 CTS performs the initial, requalification, and upgrade training as the RC-135 "Rivet Joint", "Cobra Ball", and "Combat Sent" Formal Training Unit (FTU).
RC-135S Cobra Ball ©U.S. Air Force / Public Domain. ... KC-135 Stratotanker ©barteq24 / Flickr ... developed by Boeing alongside its commercial Boeing 707, can carry up to 83,000 pounds of cargo ...
It was re-equipped with RC-135 Cobra Ball/Cobra Eye aircraft to support theater and national level intelligence consumers with near real-time on-scene collection, analysis and dissemination capabilities.
On 5 June 1969, Boeing RC-135E serial number 62–4137, operating out of Shemya AFB, went down in the Bering Sea. On 15 March 1981, another RC-135 crashed while on approach to Shemya AFB in poor weather. Six of the twenty-four crew on board were killed. [15] [16]
Members of the 6985th flew aboard Cobra Ball RC-135 aircraft, collecting information on Soviet missile launches. On 15 March 1981, the Cobra Ball II aircraft crashed into a snowbank while attempting to land at Shemya Air Force Base, Alaska. Three members of the 6985th were killed in the crash. [12]
English: 'Cobra Ball' of the 55th Wing based at Offutt AFB, Nebraska, seen about to take off from runway 11. Scanned from Fuji Sensia 200 film. Scanned from Fuji Sensia 200 film. Date