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Sortie Generation Capacity of Embarked Airwings
December 1, 1998
The Naval Strike and Warfare Center asked the Center for Naval Analyses to help evaluate and analyze carrier and air wing sortie-generation capacity. Specifically, we set out to determine the firepower capacity of an embarked air wing, the factors that constrain the sortie-generation capacity, and ways to enhance the fire power capacity. In this paper, we create a base case focusing on the three major requirements of the creation of sea-based air power: the aircraft must be mission capable, the aircrew must be able to fly the aircraft, and the flight deck crews must ready aircraft for flight, launch aircraft, and recover aircraft after the completion of their missions. Our estimates of the capacity of the airframes, the aircrew, and the carrier and air wing's ability to launch, recover, and ready aircraft for launch rely on the characteristics of the base case.
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USS Nimitz and Carrier Airwing Nine Surge Demonstration
April 1, 1998
This paper is the first of a two-volume report in which the analysis of the USS Nimitz and Carrier Airwing Nine Surge operations of July 1997 are documented. This paper focuses on three areas: operational issues, aircraft and ship maintenance and supply issues, and personnel issues. The analysis is a combination of descriptive (narrative of what happened), qualitative (documentation of knowledgeable individual's insights), and quantitative (measured data, such as time expended, amount expended, and sorties generated) assessments. Special attention is paid to the generation and support of strike/fighter sorties.
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Surge 97: Demonstrating the Firepower Potential of Aircraft Carrier
February 1, 1998
As part of JTFEX 97-2, USS Nimitz with Commander, Carrier Group Seven and Carrier Airwing Nine completed a four day flight operation known as Surge. The Surge demonstrated the entire process required to put bombs on target in littoral warfare scenario; it incorporated all facets of strike warfare - form weapons buildup in the magazines to bombs on target. In the post-Vietnam era, no other carrier and embarked airwing have ever generated as much firepower in 98 hours. This report provides data and an assessment of the Surge, examining the preparation, personnel, maintenance and supply needed for the operation.
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Cost and Capability Differences in Land-Based and Sea-Based Tactical Aviation
March 1, 1995
What are the cost and capability tradeoffs between land-based and sea-based tactical aviation? This recurring question reared its head again in 1994, when the Air Force presented certain cost data to the Commission on Roles and Missions (CORM). That data included cost estimates for F-15 and F-16 tactical fighter wings (TFWs), with each wing consisting of 72 aircraft. The Air Force also estimated costs for what it characterized as a 60-aircraft Navy carrier air wing (CVW), and the CVW's associated aircraft carrier (CV). Examination of the results has brought to light the fact that the model used to generate TFW costs and the one that produced the CVW/CV costs are quite dissimilar conceptually--the differences due largely to the treatment of indirect costs. As a potential contribution to the debate, we developed cost estimates that are directly comparable conceptually. This is a summary report. See 27 950019.00 for the complete study.
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Analysis of America's Readiness-Based Sparing Aviation Consolidated Allowance List
December 1, 1994
In a previous research, we showed how the Navy can cut the cost of carrier Aviation Consolidated Allowance Lists (AVCALs) by as much as 26 percent without cutting readiness by implementing Readiness-Based Sparing (RBS). The RBS method of selecting inventory allowances is different from the current Demand-Based Sparing (DBS) method in that it links supply resources to aircraft readiness at least cost. Our earlier RBS work prompted the Navy to conduct an at-sea test of an RBS AVCAL on USS AMERICA. The Navy asked us to perform the analysis and report the results. In this memorandum, we analyze how well AMERICA's new RBS AVCAL supported the airwing during its 1993-94 deployment and report our findings. We summarize the results of our analysis and the aviation support lessons we learned. We discuss how RBS AVCALs fit into the Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) system, present our analysis approach, and describe our analysis of mission capable rates, maintenance operations, and cannibalization actions.
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AVCAL's Effectiveness in Supporting Operations Without Resupply of Aviation Parts
April 1, 1989
This research memorandum examines the capability of a deployed aircraft carrier's Aviation Consolidated Allowance List (AVCAL) to meet the goal of supporting wartime operations for 90 days without resupply.
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