How Can the Mobility Air Forces Better Support Adaptive Basing?
Jan 24, 2023 · The analysis considers the impact of several AB concepts on the demand for tankers, airlift, and base enablers in the Pacific area of responsibility and examines the sufficiency of current …
Fighter wings, bomber wings, airlift wings, air refueling wings, and intelligence wings accounted for over one-half of all man-days served by individuals over the 1,095 man-day threshold, indicat-ing a high …
Strategic Airlift in Africa: Understanding Challenges and Opportunities ...
Jul 22, 2021 · Strategic airlift assets are overstretched and in short supply globally. Against this backdrop, RAND Europe was commissioned by the MCCE to carry out a scoping study into the …
Understanding Airfield Capacity for Airlift Operations | RAND
This report describes follow-on work to investigate how differing levels and distributions of airfield resources, over a set of airfields, can affect airlift throughput.
This research should be of interest to personnel involved in adaptive basing operations, air refueling, airlift, logistics, sustainment, and base operations in the U.S. Air Force.
The Stryker Brigade Combat Team - RAND Corporation
However, using combinations of airlift and fast sealift to move forces from forward bases or preposition sites, forces could reach key regions in 5 to 9 days and most of the globe could be covered in two …
A League of Airmen: U.S. Air Power in the Gulf War | RAND
This research effort covered many different aspects of operations during the Gulf War, including strategic airlift, munitions and logistics support, command and control, intelligence and bomb …
Achieving Global Mobility: Future Force Design 2040 | RAND
Oct 14, 2021 · This research brief highlights the likely changes that will arise in global mobility requirements for UK Armed Forces between now and 2040. It also outlines a range of options to …
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 …
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 …