Plans for a Next Generation Airlift platform, or NGAL, targeted for entry into service in the 2040s, are starting to coalesce.

From strategic airlift to tactical flexibility, delve into the unique roles of the C-5 Galaxy and C-17 Globemaster III.

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 ...

U.S. Air Force personnel load humanitarian aid cargo onto a C-17 Globemaster III in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, Sept. 5, 2025. This operation, in coordination with the U.S. Chief ...

Still in the design phase, this aircraft is anticipated to fly for the first time in 2030 according to its builder.

The Air Force is preparing for the Next Generation Airlifter (NGAL) to replace both aircraft, though it is still around 20 years from active service.

With thousands of Americans, Afghans and third-party foreign nationals seeking to leave Afghanistan following a takeover by the Taliban, hundreds of people packed into an Air Force C-17 cargo plane ...

Fort Lee will use the 50-ton fuselage to help create a state-of-the-art load-training facility for the Army's logistics soldiers. In a unique operation this week, the 170-foot-long, 25-foot-high ...

Compared to the military cargo planes in service, an aircraft which will dwarf all of them is being proposed and is likely to ...