The large battlespace in Iraq and Afghanistan has exposed an existing time and distance intra-theater airlift 'gap' within the Department of Defense that cannot be met with Army tactical helicopters like the CH-47 Chinook and UH-60 Blackhawk or larger Air Force cargo airplanes like the C-130 Hercules and C-17 Globemaster III. This study explores the logic behind expanding Army fixed-wing aircraft roles and missions. Acquiring, integrating, and operating a larger number of C-27J Spartan cargo airplanes to assume or supplement existing utility and cargo helicopter missions is a more capable, flexible, efficient and economical solution to meeting Army intra-theater airlift mission requirements. This thesis reviews what has historically prevented the Army from acquiring and employing a larger number of cargo airplanes. The thesis then explains why it is necessary for the Army to increase airlift capacity to better support a more modular and expeditionary ground force while conducting Full Spectrum Operations in the current and future Contemporary Operating Environment. The thesis provides justification as to why the Army should employ a greater percentage of cargo airplanes as opposed to utility or cargo helicopters with respect to capability, flexibility, efficiency, and cost. The thesis concludes with a recommendation to better balance the Army's fixed-wing and rotary-wing fleet that meets the needs of the Interim and Future Force.
Expanding Fixed-Wing Aircraft Capability in US Army Aviation Operations
2009
135 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Aircraft , Logistics Military Facilities & Supplies , Military Operations, Strategy, & Tactics , Theater level operations , Army aviation , Airlift operations , Transport aircraft , Fixed wing aircraft , Expansion , Military capabilities , Missions , Aeromedical evacuation , Deficiencies , Air drop operations , Helicopters , Military requirements , Theses , Off the shelf equipment , Quantity , Vietnam war , Costs , Intra-theater airlift gap , Capability gaps , C-27j aircraft , Joint cargo aircraft , Full-spectrum operations , Army doctrine , Small airlifters , Bct(Brigade combat teams) , Medium lift
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