C-17

What You Need to Know: The U.S. Department of Defense Inspector General recently released an audit highlighting excessive pricing by Boeing on spare parts for the C-17 Globemaster III. The...

Here’s What to Remember: We have to change the way we think about what we do. As platforms that deliver food, water, ammunition, forces, and weapons into high-risk forward warfare locations,...

The U.S. Marine Corps continues to focus on fast, lethal, and targeted expeditionary warfare with an eye toward islands in the Pacific. Small, mobile units of Marines recently flew on...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Placing an F-22 jet potentially three hundred miles closer to a point of attack decreases the potential need for refueling and massively decreases time to attack. It’s...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: This thinking expands beyond a C-17, according to Van Ovost, who said even KC-46 tankers could perform critical airborne command and control operations functioning as a key...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Though still in its infancy, the Air Force initiative could be of crucial importance in scenarios defined by extremely long ranges—like a peer-peer fight in...

The images are heart-wrenching—desperate Afghan civilians clinging to the outside of a C-17 transport aircraft hoping to escape as Taliban insurgent forces regained control earlier this week. One U.S. Air...

The urgency of the Pentagon’s need to accelerate and deploy hypersonic weapons is serious, according to senior U.S. weapons developers citing extreme concern about Russian and Chinese weapons.  “We are...

As platforms that deliver food, water, ammunition, forces, and weapons into high-risk forward warfare locations, U.S. Air Force tankers and cargo planes are built to operate in war. Propeller-driven C-130s,...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Air Force initiative could see cargo planes rapidly equipped with long-range standoff weapons and allow transports to act as precision bomber platforms in a...

In an announcement, the U.S. Air Force gave an update about their palletized munitions concept, a project that if successful, could greatly expand the amount of firepower that the Air...

What if U.S. Army Airborne Rangers are moving quickly to seize an airfield for a fast-advancing attack on enemy positions, when they suddenly learn that heavy concentrations of enemy armored...