AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE ENABLED JOINT CONCEPT FOR ENTRY OPERATIONS
Abstract
In Major General Brown's "Untethered Operations" article, he describes a NATO airfield coming to life in a few short hours, a lone C-17 taxing onto the airfield and equipment and personnel pouring off the cargo ramp to quickly set up operations for an inbound 4-ship of F-16s. After successfully rearming, fueling and accomplishing any required maintenance, the 4-ship departed within two hours for the next mission and the C-17 departed for the next mission generation stop. The Untethered Operations concept was formed to break out of the U.S. Air Forces decades old paradigm of fighting from a well-established or at a minimum a well-resourced air base. The air base was looked at as a weapons system in and of itself, and assumed a large degree of force protection and impunity from attack. A platform from which large amounts of sustained sortie generation would be projected from and into the fight. The Untethered Operations concept is designed to help planners who face difficult anti-access/area (A2/AD) denial battlefronts. While this is a great concept, more must be done to reduce the logistics footprint, improve logistics agility and reduce costs of logistics operations. Logisticians must always find a way to enable the operations that our Services require.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 06, 2017
- Accession Number
- AD1038069
Entities
People
- Rognald E Christensen
Organizations
- Air War College