Military Airlift | RAND Strategic Airlift in Africa: Understanding Challenges and Opportunities for the Movement Coordination Centre Europe 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 coordination of airlift and other logistic support
Strategic Airlift in Africa - RAND Corporation Against this backdrop, RAND Europe was commissioned by the MCCE to carry out a scoping study into the challenges associated with coordination of strategic lift in and around Africa While this study focuses primarily on airlift, it also considers other modes of transport (e g road, rail, sea) as part of possible multi-modal solutions
Reducing Long-Term Costs While Preserving a Robust Strategic Airlift . . . 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 the need to recapitalize that fleet This monograph presents the results of a cost-effectiveness analysis to determine the best way to recapitalize the USAF intertheater (strategic) airlift fleet
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 began without a feasible transportation plan and requirements changed frequently as the situation developed
Strategic Airlift in Africa - RAND Corporation scoping study into the challenges associated with coordination of strategic airlift in and around Africa, ahead of the main Africa Distribution Network Forum (ADNF) meeting in December 2020 Whilst this study was to focus primarily on airlift, it was also tasked with considering other modes of transport as part of possible multi-modal solutions
Understanding Airfield Capacity for Airlift Operations | RAND The report recommends that planners and others interested in airlift flow through airfields of various types and locations no longer use standard minimum times on ground (MOGs) or standard ground times but, instead, estimate the specific aircraft ground time and airfield capacity for each stopover by carefully considering the servicing, fueling
Enhanced Army Airborne Forces - RAND Corporation The near-term focus also meant that the current Air Force airlift fleet was an important consideration, since Army airborne forces rely on Air Force transport aircraft to deploy U S Army airborne forces could play a pivotal role in key missions in the future, particularly against hybrid threats and in anti-access environments
The Civil Reserve Air Fleet and Operation Desert Shield Desert Storm . . . 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 Operation Desert Shield
Mobility--airlift, sealift and prepositioning | RAND The major problem of choosing an appropriate combination of transport systems is discussed The peacetime basing of combat units, equipment, and support is emphasized, as military planners must bring military force to bear rapidly in remote locations Costs of the various airlift and sealift systems are also considered 26 pp