Cyclone Ditwah, which made landfall in Sri Lanka on November 28, has unleashed severe flooding, heavy rainfall and landslides ...

An Air Force general speculated that the C-17 Globemaster III would remain in service until 2075, even after its NGAL successor platform comes online.

The Air Force has a concept for keeping its aircraft survivable in a war with China. The service's airlift problem could ...

The Air Force plans to award a 10-year firm fixed price contract at the end of fiscal 2027 to RTX‘s Pratt & Whitney for the ...

The cargo aircraft is a valuable asset for the United States Air Force.

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 in ...

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 ...

An Indian Air Force C-17 transport aircraft has landed in Colombo to support Sri Lanka’s ongoing flood relief operations, ...

A humanitarian relief shipment from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) arrived in Sri Lanka today (02) to support communities ...

The service expects its next-generation transport aircraft to enter service in fiscal year 2038 and reach initial operating ...

The Air Force currently has no plans to recall retired pilots. An airman guides a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster after it returned from delivering cargo to Baghdad, Jan. 9, 2016 to a base in an ...

The NGAL program is still in the early stages of defining its requirements.