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Military Airlift

Research Brief

Strategic Airlift Operations for the Gulf War: An Assessment of Operational Efficiency

This research brief summarizes analysis contained in the RAND Corporation report, "Project AIR FORCE Analysis of the Air War in the Gulf: An Assessment of Strategic Airlift Operational Efficiency" (R-4269/2-AF).

Jan 1, 1993
Report

Maximum C-130E Tactical Airlift Capability : COMBAT SAMPLE.

An analysis of C-130E tactical airlift capability for various types of intratheater airlift operations. Using COMBAT SAMPLE data and assuming no resource or operational constraints, an analytic model is used to compute the maximum capability (in fly...

Jan 1, 1969
Report

Positioning Recoverable Spares in Military Airlift Networks

A description of a technique for allocating repair-cycle type spares among a main operating base and the forward stations it supports so as to minimize the inventory investment necessary to maintain an acceptable level of system supply performance.

Jan 1, 1967
Report

Effect of cargo characteristics on routine airlift operations.

A description of a technique for investigating the relationship between the efficiency of the peacetime intercontinental air-cargo system and various policy constraints on airlift. The results of two applications of the technique are also presented. ...

Jan 1, 1962
Report

The peacetime use of military airlift

An attempt to determine the appropriate way to use military airlift in peacetime. Alternative peacetime concepts for the operation of the system are considered, together with economical modes of peacetime operation with the necessary wartime capabili...

Jan 1, 1958
Report

Cargo Density and Airlift

A presentation of the results of previous RAND studies concerned with variations in the density of air cargo and the effects of these variations on aircraft design, aircraft capacity estimates, airlift operations, and airlift costs.

Jan 1, 1957
Report

The Value of Airlift in Defensive, Local, or Peripheral Wars After 1960.

A discussion of the value of airlift to the U.S. Air Force in a situation sometime after 1960 involving something less than all-out general war. Military requirements for intercontinental air transportation are discussed, along with U.S. capacity t...

Jan 1, 1956
People

Ben Caves

Senior Research Leader
Education M.A. in defence studies, King's College London; L.L.M. in commercial law, University of Bristol; B.A. in law & business, University of Lincoln; Post Graduate Diploma in logistics management, University of Lincoln
People

Ruth Harris

Research Group Director, Defense, Security and Infrastructure, RAND Europe
Education M.A. in defence and security, Kings College London; M.Sc. in conflict prevention and development management, The Open University; M.Sc. in logistics management, Lincoln University; M.Sc. in veterinary physiotherapy, Essex University
People

Brent Thomas

Senior Operations Researcher
Education M.S. and Ph.D. in water resources, University of California, Los Angeles; M.S. in environmental engineering, University of Texas; B.S. in chemical engineering, classical languages, and mathematics, Vanderbilt University

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Military Airlift