{"id":400443,"date":"2026-04-06T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/5-aircraft-used-us-military-larger-commercial-jets\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T16:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:00:17","slug":"5-aircraft-used-by-the-us-military-that-are-larger-than-commercial-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=400443","title":{"rendered":"5 Aircraft Used By The US Military That Are Larger Than Commercial Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> (USAF) operates some of the largest aircraft in the world, although not the largest. The largest aircraft in US Air Force service are a mixture of purpose-built military aircraft, like bombers, and military versions of civilian aircraft, like the Boeing 747 Jumbo. The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2050778\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-much-bigger-airbus-a380-compared-boeing-747-8\/\" >largest aircraft in the world today is the civil Airbus A380 Superjumbo<\/a><\/span>. However, that is not in US Air Force service, and since the destruction of the Antonov An-225 Mriya, the world&#8217;s largest dedicated military aircraft is the Ukrainian\/Russian Antonov An-124 Ruslan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest USAF aircraft are converted Boeing commercial aircraft, although it also operates massive purpose-built bomber and transport 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":[396,5549,412,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-c-5-galaxy","category-military","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400443","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=400443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400444,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400443\/revisions\/400444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}