A survey of Western air transport capabilities.
Armada International › Vol. 13 Nbr. 3, June 1989
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A survey of Western air transport capabilities.
A Survey of Western Air Transport Capabilities
The Long, the Short and the Tall Ground and airborne operations alike depend for their success on the availability of an airmobile capability. Only air transport gives the flexibility and swift response required for showing the flag operations worldwide, for the reinforcement of units stationed overseas, for widescale operations aimed at seizing territory and for covert operations deep in the enemy rear. We only have to look at the following examples in the recent past to illustrate this. * Yom Kippur war (1973) After five days' preparation the US Air Force Military Airlift Command (MAC) airlifted to Israel over 20000 tons of military stores in 566 sorties to replace the Israelis' losses. Over a distance of 12 000 km, with a stopover in the Azores, the above flights ferried, in addition to munitions of all types and sizes, 50-ton MBTs, disassembled combat aircraft and ready assembled helicopters. Some of these back-up supplies were already in place on the Golan Heights within three hours of being offloaded and on the canal front in the Sinai in ten hours. * Soviet Union Since the end of the sixties the Sovie...See the full content of this document
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