With the ability to swallow 50-ton main battle tanks and deposit them on another continent, the Galaxy is an essential part of the global logistics system. “[The C-5] symbolized the size ...

That's the C-5 Galaxy, a massive transportation vessel that currently serves as the U.S. Air Force's only strategic airlifter. The craft was commissioned by the Air Force in 1965, with the first C ...

But today we’re taking a moment to appreciate the largest jet in the U.S. military’s inventory: the Lockheed Martin C-5 Super Galaxy. The C-5 gives the U.S. an intercontinental strategic ...

It's not as large as the vast C-5M Super Galaxy, but it's an Air Force icon ... even with the AC-130 gunship variant. In September 2022, Air Mobility Command was forced to ground a sizable ...

With the C-5 Galaxy as the US Air Force’s (USAF) – and the West’s – only strategic airlifter, Lockheed Martin’s C-5 Galaxy is the de-facto largest military transport aircraft in operational service.

A request for such a plane was announced in 1964. A year later, the Air Force selected Lockheed's C-5 Galaxy as the winning submission in the Cargo Experimental-Heavy Logistics System Program ...

The C-5 Galaxy, one of the largest military aircraft in the world, arrived on Wednesday from Dover, Delaware, manned by the 9th Airlift Squadron. Two pilots from Western New York, Captain Tom ...