Did you know the biggest challenge that the airlift community faces is interoperability? Defence IQ surveyed a wide range of experts, to highlight the main challenges in the airlift space, which technologies present the most potential and which ones are going to be the focus point of investment in the coming years. These themes will be addressed at this year’s Military Airlift, where top speakers from the military community, multinational organisations and NGOs will focus on improving equipment, capability, strategy and tactics.
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To learn more about Military Airlift 2019, chaired by Major General (Rtd) Dimitrios Petridis, you can download the agenda here. If you would like a copy to be sent to your inbox, please click here instead.
Why you should attend Military Airlift:
Improve your access to air-to-air refueling capability by adopting new and innovative A3R technology
Defeat Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2AD) challenges by transforming your tactical training approach
Utilise part-pooling and asset exchange mechanisms to protect your fleet investments and sustain your capability
Deliver cost efficiency for your service by diversifying your capability development strategy across airchartering, fleet management, acquisition and multinational solutions
Airlift is a critical capability necessary to ensure a secure Europe. In this content piece, A-400 programme manager Michael Schaefer delivers his thoughts and views on accelerating the procurement of airlifts. He touches upon challenges and opportunities for the industry as well as the importance of the Military Airlift conference. This insider piece is valuable to anyone interested in:
In this exclusive interview, Colonel Markus Bestgen, Deputy Commander, Multinational MRTT Unit shares exclusive insight into how the MRTT Partnership looks to expand the scope of air-to-air refueling in Europe, a theme he will elaborate on as a key speaker of this year's conference.
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Colonel Bestgen will speak on expanding the scope of air-to-air refueling in Europe in more details at this year’s Military Airlift, where he will be joined by a panel of senior speakers. To view the full agenda, please click here.
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Colonel Bestgen: Operating in a fast changing, extremely challenging and complex environment all over the world, the biggest task for all the nations is to stay up-to-date in terms of processes and technologies. Our state-of- the-art aircraft is combined with highly trained personnel to ensure the success of all our missions. These will encompass the fields of air transport, air-to-air refueling and…
In this exclusive interview, Major General (Retd.) Dimitrios Petridis, Former Programme Manager of the Aviation Support Programme Office, NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) discusses the interconnected challenges facing the military airlift community.
He covers the pooling and sharing of resources among Nations which led initially to the establishment of the C-130 Partnership by the NATO Maintenance & Supply Agency, the expansion of its scope through the Fixed Wing Aircraft Partnership, the establishment of the European Air Transport Command and the Movement Coordination Centre Europe.
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Major General Petridis:
“The message here is that the implementation of high-level targets such as the Strategic Airlift Capability can be achieved only by a strong commitment to a multinational cooperation by the various Nations, regardless of the avenue to be chosen (C-17 or A-400M), which is directly related to other very important parameters such as Budget, Timing or support of the local Industry. In either case, consensus is of paramount importance to materialise these high level-targets which in the current case produced successful results for the International Community by both avenues pursued, making thus possible to bridge the gap of the SAC deficit in Europe within the first decade of the 21st century.”