Thompson is known for having high-ranking sources within the Air Force. On the day the Air Force announced that Northrop-EADS had won the tanker competition over Boeing, Thompson learned of the ...

The new effort is frequently referred to as a “bridge tanker,” meaning the transitional aircraft to a future generation of refuelers. Aerial refueling of U.S. and allied aircraft is essential ...

A British security guard who was killed in a suspected Iranian drone strike on an Israel-linked tanker was a former soldier in the ... record of service," Ambrey's managing director John Thompson said ...

A British-flagged oil tanker remains in Iranian custody after being seized by the Islamic Republic’s navy in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday. The UK government convened an emergency meeting of ...

After more than two months of detention, the British-flagged oil tanker held by Iran has left the country's waters and is transmitting its location signal. "We are preparing to leave," Erik Hanell ...

Iran's latest move sending armed boats to try to force a British oil tanker into its territorial waters could have resulted in a catastrophic explosion had the gunboats fired on the empty tanker ...

HMS Montrose came between five Iranian boats that ordered tanker to Iran waters A British warship prevented an apparent attempt by five Iranian small boats to direct a British oil tanker toward ...

The British tanker was seized while in international waters, its owner said. Iran's paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps have seized a British-flagged and a Liberian-flagged oil tanker ...

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s seizure of a British oil tanker was a response to Britain’s role in impounding an Iranian supertanker first, senior officials said Saturday, as newly released video of ...