Accession Number:

AD1038069

Title:

AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE ENABLED JOINT CONCEPT FOR ENTRY OPERATIONS

Descriptive Note:

Technical Report

Corporate Author:

AIR WAR COLLEGE MAXWELL AFB United States

Personal Author(s):

• CHRISTENSEN,ROGNALD E

Report Date:

2017-04-06

Pagination or Media Count:

27.0

Abstract:

In Major General Browns 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-accessarea A2AD 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.

Descriptors:

• aircraft maintenance
• air force operations
• aircraft equipment
• air force personnel
• cargo aircraft
• landing fields
• air power
• logistics
• airframes
• manpower utilization

Subject Categories:

• Aircraft
• Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE