FAS | Intelligence | Programs | Collect |||| Index | Search | Join FAS Rivet Joint The USAF RC-135V/W RIVET JOINT surveillance aircraft are equipped with an extensive array of sophisticated intelligence gathering equipment enabling military specialists to monitor the electronic activity of adversaries. Also known as RJ , the aircraft are sometimes called hogs due to the extended hog nose and hog ...

Wednesday, May 9, 2001 RC-135: A strange-looking bird equipped for a secret mission By Wayne Specht, Stars and Stripes The hog-nosed RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft, Rivet Joint, bristles with an extensive antenna array and strange looking bulges on its fuselage. It is a high-altitude version of the C-135, a militarized version of the veritable Boeing 707. Rivet Joint aircraft are assigned to the ...