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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

First US C-17 heavy-lift plane arrives next week

C-17 Globemaster IIIThe first of the heavy lift transport planes, the C-17-Globemaster-III, is slated to land at the Hindon airbase near New Delhi on June 17.

Once the entire fleet is in place, it will provide India with the ability to rapidly move troops, equipment, tanks and even choppers to far off places.

Two more planes will follow over the next six weeks after which the IAF will conduct a formal induction ceremony of the first lot of three in August.

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