The C-17 is a 174-foot-long cargo plane that can drop an M1 Abrams tank just about anywhere it will fit. As mentioned earlier, the United States also uses the much larger C-5 Galaxy. It's a behemoth ...

Few names evoke the scale of US cargo power projection more than the LockheedC-5 Galaxy and BoeingC-17 Globemaster III. These two behemoths have carried the weight of US global logistics for decades, ...

Although the C-17 Globemaster III had its maiden flight in 1991, it took four more years until the first C-17 squadron became ...

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 ...

Boeing is reportedly considering resuming production of its C-17 Globemaster III jet, discontinued in 2015. That's going to be quite a trick since the Long Beach, California factory that made the ...