At Stewart Air National Guard Base, the U.S. Air Force’s 105th Airlift Wing (AW) is at the forefront of a significant ...

The C-17 is capable of rapid strategic delivery of troops and all types of cargo to main operating bases or directly to forward bases in the deployment area. The aircraft can perform tactical ...

The aircraft that replaced the strategic airlift plane was the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, a plane designed not only to replace the Lockheed C-141 Starlifter but also to perform some of the tasks ...

With the forecast for severe weather, the 62nd Airlift Wing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord is taking precautionary steps to ...

That's C-17 crew chief Staff Sgt. Joshua Estell. He helps oversee the 13 C-17s stationed at Travis Air Force Base. Cargo is loaded through these ramps at the back of the aircraft. Staff Sgt.

At 174 feet long and 55 feet tall, the C-17 can carry a payload of around 170,000 pounds and can land on runways shorter than 3,500 feet with just three crew members manning the aircraft.

supplementing the existing use of C-130J aircraft, and boosting India's military logistics against China and Pakistan. C-17 aircraft lands at Kargil in a major boost to strategic airlift ...

SPOKANE, Wash. - US Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Tacoma evacuated several C-17 Globemaster III aircraft due to forecasted ...

The ability to airdrop supplies using the C-17 versus the ski-equipped LC-130 Hercules, the traditional aircraft used to airland supplies on the ice, allows aircrews to deliver up to four times as ...

A C-17 tactical transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) executed a precision airdrop of two combat boats along with marine commandos in the Arabian Sea while assisting the Navy to seize a ...