As enormous a military budget as the United States has, money is never infinite. It's being allocated in a thousand different directions, just like a household budget, but on a larger scale. As such, ...

The C-17 Globemaster’s unique landing system lets it reach tiny runways, but its distinctive noise footprint remains a major ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A massive C-17 Globemaster III landed at Conroe airport to deliver Apache helicopters as the Army begins dismantling older models.

How does the C-17 Globemaster III stack up with other modern cargo aircraft? The question immediately raises more questions, such as whether the comparison is with civil or military aircraft, and what ...

If you were looking up in the cloudy Wichita sky Monday, you might have caught a glimpse of an important piece of U.S. Air Force logistics.

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) initiated a program in December 1979, known as the Cargo-Experimental (C-X) competition, as a means of finding a new strategic airlift aircraft that was ...

The C-17 Globemaster III isn't as old as planes like the famously ancient (yet still remarkably effective) B-52 Stratofortress, but it's still getting to be a little long in the tooth, as it has been ...

Boeing has delivered the first of six C-17 Globemaster III airlifters to the UAE Air Force and Air Defence during a ceremony at the company's final assembly facility in Long Beach earlier today UAE ...