With its long history in the aviation industry, it's unsurprising Boeing has seen many changes to its fleets. As aviation technology improves, it's only natural that older units are replaced with more ...

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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 ...

The original scripts are written by My Cresta. The vox model and sound files come from two different workshop mods: AC130 Airstrike and AC130 MORE Enhanced, which I do not own or claim authorship of ...

Boeing is in the early stages of discussing a potential restart of C-17 Globemaster III production, which ceased in November 2015. This exploration is prompted by interest from several countries, some ...

It is no secret that the C-5 and C-17 are getting older. The C-5 began flying in 1970, and the C-17 joined the Air Force inventory in 1993. With the ages of these vital aircraft, it seems logical that ...

No matter the variant, the AC-130 is jam-packed with the sort of weaponry one would expect to find on a “gunship.” The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is somewhat pedestrian as far as military aircraft goes—a ...

More than 80 illegal migrants nabbed under President Trump’s border crackdown were recently loaded onto a C-17 military plane in El Paso, Texas, for a one-way flight back to Ecuador. Fox News got ...

The Air Force is progressing with a massive technological overhaul of its warzone-tested C-130 aircraft, giving the platform new radios, digital avionics, collision avoidance technology and reinforced ...