Military Airlift | RAND
Aug 20, 2021 · Strategic Airlift in Africa: Understanding Challenges and Opportunities for the Movement Coordination Centre Europe (MCCE) and Member Nations The Movement Coordination Centre …
Intratheater Airlift Functional Area Analysis (FAA) | RAND
Feb 24, 2011 · This functional area analysis lays out the tasks, conditions, and standards for the intratheater airlift fleet, taken from high-level guidance, various operational concepts, and recent …
Strategic Airlift in Africa: Understanding Challenges and Opportunities ...
Jul 22, 2021 · The Movement Coordination Centre Europe commissioned RAND Europe to conduct a scoping study to understand constraints of operating in Africa, as well as barriers to the efficient …
Project AIR FORCE Analysis of the Air War in the Gulf
The 1990 airlift during Operation Desert Shield moved ten times the daily ton-miles of the Berlin Airlift. In the main, this airlift operation was successful, but it did not attain expected performance. Operations …
The challenges and opportunities of strategic airlift in Africa
Jul 22, 2021 · A complex mix of global and geographically specific challenges inhibit the coordination and optimisation for airlift into the African theatre. Researchers explored the potential use of other …
This report investigates the activation of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF), which the Military Airlift Command (predecessor of the Airlift Mobility Command) called up for the first time at the start of …
Reducing Long-Term Costs While Preserving a Robust Strategic Airlift ...
Jan 31, 2013 · The current strategic airlift fleet will be reaching the end of its service life in the next few decades, which has raised concerns about the cost and possible budget spike that would result from …
From these preposi-tion sites, the choice of airlift or sealift depends on the scenario. • In general, deep interior deployments favor airlift; littoral scenar-ios favor sealift. Particular cases may present neither …
Physical barriers to logistics support solutions in Africa are compounded by lack of regional hubs or forward bases, meaning that there is an over-reliance on inter-theatre and strategic airlift direct to …
Intratheater Airlift Functional Needs Analysis (FNA) | RAND
Feb 24, 2011 · This functional needs analysis assesses the ability of current U.S. Air Force assets to deliver the airlift capabilities identified in the functional area analysis.