Enroute Maintenance Support for Fighter Deployments: Is ESTA the Only Answer
Enroute Maintenance Support for Fighter Deployments: Is ESTA the Only Answer
- Neue Suche nach: T. J. Sundvall
- Neue Suche nach: T. J. Sundvall
The purpose of this research was to examine Air Mobility Command's (AMC) role in providing enroute maintenance support for deploying fighter squadrons through the Enroute Support Team Aircraft (ESTA). The ESTA mission hurts AMC's overall airlift flow because the mission durations are so unpredictable. This paper searches for alternatives to the traditional ESTA. Two main alternatives are explored: (1) using enroute stopover bases that house the same type of fighter as those deploying; and (2) using the KC-10 in a dual role, acting as both lead navigation tanker as well as the ESTA for the deploying squadron. The dual role KC-10 holds the most promise as a consistent way for AMC to lessen the burden that the ESTA places on it, but changes in the planning process as well as in AMC Instructions would have to be implemented to realize the potential benefit.
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Enroute Maintenance Support for Fighter Deployments: Is ESTA the Only Answer
2005
66 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Aeronautics , Aircraft , Logistics Military Facilities & Supplies , Deployment , Aircraft maintenance , Jet fighters , Logistics planning , Squadrons , Airlift operations , Maintenance personnel , Refueling in flight , Transatlantic flights , Maintenance equipment , Travel time , Air force planning , Routing , Scheduling , Tanker aircraft , Delay , Esta(Enroute support team aircraft) , Fighter deployments , Enroute maintenance support , Amc(Air mobility command) , Kc-10 aircraft , C-17 aircraft , Dual role tankers , F-16 aircraft , A-10 aircraft , F-15a/c aircraft , F-15e aircraft , F-117 aircraft , Interviews , Ete(Estimated time enroute) , Flight planning , C-130 aircraft , F-15c aircraft , Airlift planning
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