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Humanitarian aid

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"Succour" redirects here. For the album, see Succour (album). Humanitarian aid arriving by C-130 Hercules at Rinas Airport in Albania in the summer of 2000. Many organizations engaged in assisting refugees fleeing Kosovo. A soldier gives a young Pakistani girl a drink of water as they are airlifted from Muzaffarabad to Islamabad. A young Afghan girl clenches her teddy bear that she received at a medical clinic at Camp Clark in Khost Province. Humanitarian aid is material and logistic assistance to people who need help. It is usually short-term help until the long-term help by government and other institutions replaces it. Among the people in need are the homeless, refugees, and victims of natural disasters, wars and famines. Humanitarian aid is material or logistical assistance provided for humanitarian purposes, typically in response to humanitarian crises including natural disasters and man-made disaster. The primary objective of humanitarian aid is to save...

Boeing C-17 Globemaster III

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Military transport aircraft series by Boeing For other aircraft with this designation, see C-17 (disambiguation). C-17 Globemaster III The prototype C-17, known as T-1, flying a test sortie in 2007 Role Strategic and tactical airlifter National origin United States Manufacturer McDonnell Douglas / Boeing First flight 15 September 1991 Introduction 17 January 1995 Status In service Primary users United States Air Force Indian Air Force Royal Air Force See Operators for others Produced 1991–2015 [1] Number built 279 [1] Unit cost US$218 million (flyaway cost for FY 2007) [2] Developed from McDonnell Douglas YC-15 The Boeing C-17 Globemaster III is a large military transport aircraft. It was developed for the United States Air Force (USAF) from the 1980s to the early 1990s by McDonnell Douglas. The C-17 carries forward the name of two previous piston-engined military cargo aircraft, the Douglas C...