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U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III from the 517th Airlift Squadron dropping equipment and Airborne Infantry from the 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division during a joint training exercise.
Royal Air Force – 8 C-17A ERs in use as of May 2021 [202] [210] [211] No. 24 Squadron, RAF Brize Norton [211] No. 99 Squadron, RAF Brize Norton [211] United States. United States Air Force – 222 C-17s in service as of January 2018 [202] (157 Active, 47 Air National Guard, 18 Air Force Reserve) [59]
Rapid Dragon is a palletized and disposable weapons module which is airdropped in order to deploy flying munitions, typically cruise missiles, from unmodified cargo planes.. Developed by the United States Air Force and Lockheed, the airdrop-rigged pallets, called "deployment boxes," provide a low cost method allowing unmodified cargo planes, such as C-130 or C-17 aircraft, to be temporarily ...
Boeing overcharged the Air Force nearly $1 million for spare parts on C-17 cargo planes, including an 8,000% markup for simple lavatory soap dispensers, according to the Pentagon’s inspector ...
In conjunction with Royal Netherlands Air Force C-130s, the two aircraft ferried international police officers and their equipment between the Netherlands and Kharkiv in Ukraine. They also flew the bodies of victims of the incident to the Netherlands. [80] A third C-17 flew aircrew and equipment from Australia to the Netherlands. [81]
The 517th Airlift Squadron provides airlift operating Boeing C-17 Globemaster III and Beechcraft C-12F Huron aircraft. Supporting worldwide airlift, airdrop, airland requirements while providing airlift for theater deployed forces and resupply of remote Alaskan long-range radar sites in support of United States Pacific Command, North American Aerospace Defense Command, and United States ...
C-17 of the 437th AW airdrops pallets of water and food to Mirebalais, Haiti, 21 Jan 2010. The 437th Airlift Wing (437 AW) is an active unit of the United States Air Force, assigned to 18th Air Force, Air Mobility Command. It is the mission wing at Charleston Air Force Base, Joint Base Charleston, in the City of North Charleston, South Carolina.
At 222 feet across, almost 300 feet in length, and 65 feet above the ground, Lockheed Martin's C-5 Galaxy is the largest transport aircraft in the US Air Force.. With a cargo hull 121 feet long ...