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- Airlifting consists of two distinct types: strategic and tactical. Typically, strategic airlifting involves moving material long distances (such as across or off the continent or theater), whereas a tactical airlift focuses on deploying resources and material into a specific location with high precision.
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Apr 10, 2020 · Despite longstanding trends toward rotary and tilt-rotor aviation, some analysts are revisiting old arguments in favor of acquiring light and superlight, fixed-wing aircraft for tactical airlift.
- Rewind and Reconnoiter: The Future of Tactical Airlift is ...
In 2020, Walker D. Mills and Dylan “Joose” Phillips-Levine...
- Rewind and Reconnoiter: The Future of Tactical Airlift is ...
Tactical airlift is a military term for the airborne transportation of supplies and equipment within a theatre of operations (in contrast to strategic airlift). Aircraft that perform this role are referred to as tactical airlifters.
- The Evolution of Tactical Airlifters
- From Hercules to Super Hercules
- The Future of Tactical Airlifters
Lockheed Martinis one of several global players in the military airlifter market, but the company has a longstanding contributor to it. Jeff Rhodes, a Lockheed Martin Aeronautics historian, explains that although there were airlifters before the Hercules, it was Lockheed’s (before it merged with Martin Marietta in the mid-90s) Hercules design that ...
The first Hercules rolled off the production line and into the air in 1954. In the almost 70 years since it has played major roles in military conflict, but also other theatres. The C-130J expands this tradition and is available in a plethora of mission configurations, including personnel recovery and humanitarian aid, aerial firefighting, electron...
The latest C-130J carries this tradition onwards, offering mission versatility that has been seen in aircraft that have gone before it and those on offer now, according to Rhodes, such as the C-130J-30 combat delivery aircraft, the KC-130J tactical tanker, the US Coast Guard HC-130J search and rescue platform, the US Air Force’s HC-130J, used for s...
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Tactical aircraft (usually C-130 variants) are smaller and are used primarily for intratheater airlift within a defined area of responsibility (AOR). Strategic aircraft (C-5B/M, C-17A) have larger payload capacities and extended ranges, making them useful for intertheater transportation between two different AORs or GCCs.
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Jun 15, 2022 · We look at key milestones in the development of the C-130 Hercules and how it has reshaped the tactical airlift landscape over nearly seven decades.
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Jul 25, 2024 · In 2020, Walker D. Mills and Dylan “Joose” Phillips-Levine wrote “The Future of Tactical Airlift is Here and it’s Vertical,” where they explore tactical airlift use in the U.S. military and argue that rotary-wing and tilt-rotor aircrafts should have a significant role in the future.
