The U.S. Air Force is arming its cargo planes with bombs for attack missions in a clear move to expand the offensive warfare envelope for its fleet of tactical supply and transport aircraft ...

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin Corp. $25 million to transform large cargo aircraft like C-17 Globemaster III into bomb trucks, and expects to hold a demonstration of the capability ...

The Air Force and Merlin Labs will work together to bring an AI copilot to C-130J cargo planes. Here's how the system works.

The Air Force has been converting cargo planes into armed warbirds since the Vietnam War, when it added banks of Gatling guns to C-47 and C-130 transports.

A dozen brand new-cargo planes ordered by the US Air Force are being delivered to a storage unit in the Arizona desert because the military has no use for the jets, according to a report. The spank… ...

Air Force Cargo Planes Could Get New Job in the Fight A C-17 Globemaster III from Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, deployed to the 8th Expeditionary Air Mobility Squadron taxis before a ...

The U.S. Air Force successfully hit a target on the ground with a missile fired from…a cargo plane. "Rapid Dragon" aims to allow cargo planes to pinch-hit as bombers with no modifications.

Of those, 16 have been delivered – with almost all sent directly to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, where some 4,400 aircraft and 13 aerospace vehicles, with a total value of more than ...

Lawmakers have opted to let the Air Force retire some bombers, tankers and cargo planes, but they stridently protected others like the A-10 and Global Hawk from any reductions.

The notion of stashing brand new cargo planes in storage alongside thousands of dead aircraft is sad, but it’s sort of everybody’s fault. Since 2007, the Air Force has spent some $567 million ...

On Dec. 12, an acceptance ceremony held at Lockheed Martin's Marietta, Georgia, facility, celebrated the delivery of the first three C-130J for the Iraqi Air Force. Six planes, purchased through ...