{"id":341558,"date":"2026-01-02T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T00:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-c-17-globemaster-stacks-up-modern-cargo-aircraft\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T10:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T00:00:17","slug":"how-the-c-17-globemaster-stacks-up-against-modern-cargo-aircraft-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=341558","title":{"rendered":"How The C\u201117 Globemaster Stacks Up Against Modern Cargo Aircraft In 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How does the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"258749\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/c-17-globemaster\/\"  >C-17 Globemaster III<\/a><\/span> stack up with other modern cargo aircraft? The question immediately raises more questions, such as whether the comparison is with civil or military aircraft, and what constitutes a modern aircraft. This article will compare the C-17 to other military transport aircraft and then compare it with commercial freighters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The C-17 is the most popular Western strategic airlifter, and it boasts many advantages over freighter aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,853,1314,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-c-17-globemaster","category-freighter","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341559,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341558\/revisions\/341559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}