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KC-10 Extender Has Flown Its Last Combat Mission
After more than four decades during which it provided vital inflight refueling and airlift, the U.S. Air Force’s venerable
KC-10A Extender has flown its last combat mission.
While the Air Force already began sending KC-10s to the boneyard in 2020, the latest milestone signals the
impending retirement of the type, although it’s not yet entirely clear what the service’s future tanker fleet will consist of.
Photos published today by the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS) show a KC-10 departing
Prince Sultan Air Base (PSAB), in Saudi Arabia, on October 5.
According to accompanying captions, the departure of the Extender concluded the type’s final combat deployment at the base.
Air Mobility Command (AMC) confirmed to The War Zone that this was the last combat deployment of the KC-10 anywhere in the world, not just in the Middle East.
“For nearly four decades, the KC-10 has helped secure global reach for America,” AMC spokeswoman Jessica Brown said. “It’s expected to redeploy to its home station soon.”….
