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    The Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC) is a multinational initiative that provides its participating nations assured access to military airlift capability...
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    its strategic airlift. By 1980, the USAF had a large fleet of aging C-141 Starlifter cargo aircraft. Compounding matters, increased strategic airlift capabilities...
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    Airlift: Logistics, Humanitarian Aid, and Strategic Success Royal Engineers Museum Royal Engineers and the Cold War (Berlin Airlift) Berlin Airlift US...
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    The 146th Airlift Wing (146 AW) is a unit of the California Air National Guard, stationed at Channel Islands Air National Guard Station, Oxnard, California...
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    financial support, the firm will advise on further strategic development in the US. Avia Solutions Group is a holding company with subsidiaries specializing...
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    Ан-124 Руслан, lit. 'Ruslan'; NATO reporting name: Condor) is a large, strategic airlift, four-engined aircraft that was designed in the 1980s by the Antonov...
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    Between 1998 and 2000 Air Foyle bid an AN-124 solution for the Ministry of Defence Short-Term Strategic Airlift (STSA) procurement. After a protracted procurement...
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  • China, Papua New Guinea, and the Middle East. It airlifted 18,000 emergency cases in 2008. International SOS is a privately owned company. They work with...
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    elements of the inactivated Military Airlift Command (MAC) and Strategic Air Command (SAC). AMC melded MAC's worldwide airlift system of primarily C-5 Galaxy...
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    The Spanish airlift of 1936 was a military operation, carried out by the Nationalists during the early phase of the Spanish Civil War. It did not have...
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    Military Airlift Support Squadron (1966–78) was created by Military Airlift Command (MAC) to service the large increase in transiting airlift. The 65th...
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  • Operation Moses (category Airlifts)
    Ethiopian Jews in the refugee camps, Krieger came up with the idea of an airlift and met with Mossad and Sudanese representatives to facilitate the Operation...
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  • Movement Coordination Centre Europe (category International military organizations)
    capacity: Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC) and Strategic Air Lift International Solution (SALIS) (its centre is co-located in the MCCE) for airlift, and...
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  • three-year contract with NATO to provide strategic airlift services to the alliance's Strategic Airlift Interim Solution (SALIS). The contract was renewable...
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  • holdings include but are not limited to artifacts from the 1948–1949 Berlin Airlift, the 1960 U-2 incident, a 5,000-square-foot (460 m2) display on the Cuban...
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    Airbus A400M Atlas (category 2000s international military transport aircraft)
    by Airbus Military, now Airbus Defence and Space, as a tactical airlifter with strategic capabilities to replace older transport aircraft, such as the Transall...
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    its acceptance trials in May 2008. The Polaris is classified as a strategic airlifter by the Royal Canadian Air Force. As a tanker, the CC-150 has a similar...
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    2024. "Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC)". Nato.int. Retrieved 8 April 2017. Dorschener, Jim. "Hungary's Fleet Revolution". Air International, Vol. 86...
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    broadened its role to include regional assistance, humanitarian airlifts, and international peacekeeping efforts. The following outlines the key components...
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  • set of ideas implemented by military organizations to pursue desired strategic goals. Derived from the Greek word strategos, the term strategy, when...
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  • Starlifter is a strategic airlifter. The C-141 was produced at Marietta. Lockheed C-5 Galaxy : The C-5 is the largest strategic airlifter in the USAF inventory...
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    F-111, and ATB as possible solutions; an emphasis was placed on multi-role capabilities, as opposed to purely strategic operations. In 1981, it was believed...
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    (September 1, 2021). "Biden defends departure from 'forever war,' praises airlift". Associated Press News. Archived from the original on September 8, 2021...
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    the CCP. The US airlifted many KMT troops from central China to Manchuria. Approximately 50,000 U.S. troops were sent to guard strategic sites in Hubei...
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  • U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield (category Installations of Strategic Air Command)
    totaled US$41,169,769. Units involved were the 36th Airlift Squadron (36 AS) of the 374th Airlift Wing (374 AW) from Yokota Air Base, Japan, flying C-130H...
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    experts assess the Hamas–Israel war and its international implications". International Institute for Strategic Studies. 10 October 2023. Retrieved 12 October...
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    No. 2 Group controls the Air Mobility Force which provides strategic and tactical airlift, air-to-air refuelling and command support air transport (CSAT)...
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  • was too heavy to be airlifted by the C-141 Starlifter that was rapidly becoming the basis for the US Air Forces strategic airlift system. The program...
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    "Delivering the goods: the ADF's future battlefield airlifter" (PDF). avia-it.com. Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Archived from the original on 2...
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    Innovations included airlift (the capability to quickly move limited high-priority supplies, equipment, and personnel); and strategic bombing (the bombing...
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