Hose Drogue Presently, two aerial refueling methods are practiced. One method uses a hose-drogue-probe assembly for the delivery of fuel. Alternatively, probe-drogue refueling (PDR) involves coupling ...

Aerial refueling is a standard operation, but a challenging and critical one, ... which the receiver pilot would connect to a basket attached to the end of a hose – the drogue ...

The Pentagon may have to delay the purchase of aerial refueling tankers as a cost-cutting measure, ... he’ll stab the drogue, which can cause the hose to bunch up and fly away.

DETROIT, November 7, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Stratview Research announces the launch of a new market research report on Global Aerial Refueling Systems Market by Aircraft Type (Combat Aircraft ...

Smiths is a key partner on the KC-767 Tanker, providing the Centerline Hose Drum Unit and Wing Aerial Refueling Pod hose and drogue refueling systems, in addition to a number of other electronic ...

The hose-and-drogue method of aerial refueling has mostly been unchanged since it was developed in the late 1940s. An invention of Alan Cobham’s Flight Refuelling Ltd., the system requires the ...

There are two processes to aerial refueling, ... The probe-and-drogue involves a long hose with a funnel-shaped device at the end called a drogue. This is plugged into a probe on the receiver.

Using either an advanced aerial refueling boom, or a hose and drogue centerline refueling system, the KC-10 can refuel a wide variety of U.S. and allied military aircraft within the same mission.

On Apr. 10, 2025, a C-17 from Joint Base Lewis-McChord became the first in the U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command to take fuel from a commercially contracted KDC-10B. Omega Air Refueling, based ...

Aerial refueling is a standard operation, but a challenging and critical one, ... which the receiver pilot would connect to a basket attached to the end of a hose – the drogue ...