The impact of wingships on strategic lift
By:  Bradley L. Olds
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 69
Description: Operation Desert Shield highlighted tremendous problems with our nation's ability to efficiently move our army and equipment to distant theaters. The wingship, a hybrid air/surface craft is a potential solution to our long- standing sealift deficit. The Sealift Parametric Analysis Model, a simulation provided by the Naval Surface Warfare Center, was modified to adapt wingships so that the vessel's impact on force closure could be analyzed. For a notional force requiring 19 million square feet of combat gear and support equipment, wingships augmenting conventional sealift assets can move the needed equipment into the South Korea or Persian Gulf theaters much faster than is currently possible. Even with the large amount of additional square footage of cargo- carrying capability already programmed for further sealift assets, troops can be deployed and supported much more quickly with wingships. Given the diverse global threat in this rapidly changing world, wingships provide a strategic deterrent of tremendous value to our nation and to our allies.
Notes: Thesis advisor(s): Dan C. Boger.

"September 1993."

Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research) Naval Postgraduate School, September 1993.

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