Military airlift

(b) Military airlift .

The Sarajevo airlift has now gone on longer than the Berlin airlift 45 years ago.

Military airlift 17 428.2 16 885.0 543.2

Air force, strategic airlift goes both ways.

Provision is made for the airlift of military equipment and supplies.

Additional resources were required for military airlift ( 8,573,400) and commercial freight and cartage ( 252,100).

Too much has changed since the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Airlift, and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Emergency airlift operations could be extended to many places where it is now unsafe or impossible to fly.

On 22 July 2005, at about 4.45pm a crane being used to airlift concrete slabs for installation suddenly snapped.

Furthermore, it would not be cost effective to airlift items from remote areas of the country to Phnom Penh.

Discussions are also underway to exploreprospects for Russia s possible contribution of capabilities, particularly strategic airlift, to future ESDP operations.

Conditions in Malange and Menongue have sufficiently stabilized to permit the continuous airlift of relief supplies to these two towns.

Additional provision is made for a special airlift of 2,746 troops, including some equipment, as detailed in annex IV ( 8,346,700).

UNHCR had deployed large numbers of staff and mounted a massive airlift to transport vast quantities of relief items to Pakistan.

4. Start of air drop operations for Bihać, Srebrenica and Žepa, and the airlift operation for Sarajevo as soon as possible.

In Angola, for example, repeated attacks on WFP cargo aircraft have periodically shut down the airlift critical to reach the besieged populations.

December 18, 1995 An overloaded 188C of Trans Service Airlift crashed near Cahungula, Angola with the loss of 141 of the 144 occupants.

Additional requirements ( 220,000) are proposed for the airlift of equipment to areas within the Mission area ( 160,000) and increased freight charges anticipated ( 60,000).

At mid year, arrangements were being made to register and airlift approximately 800 refugees from Suki and Damazine to Gambella and other destinations in Ethiopia.

23. Provision is made for the emplacement of contingent personnel by means of a special military airlift, as detailed in column 2 of annex XI ( 9,871,700).

The provision of specialized enabling resources to UNSAS also remains problematic, particularly strategic airlift capacities to move troops and contingent owned equipment to and from mission areas.

Aside from the United States, the C 17 is in service with the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, NATO Heavy Airlift Wing, India, and Kuwait.

Although the evacuation operation did not actually take place, the local provincial reconstruction team was preparing to airlift 25 non governmental organizations personnel to safety using German helicopters.

Careful consideration must be given to the options set forth therein, including the establishment of a revolving fund to enable African States to obtain strategic sea and airlift capabilities.

Land mines, destroyed bridges and military activity have limited road transportation, and airlift operations have had to be reduced because of the fighting and the threat of missile attacks.

Each of these aircraft will be able to provide an airlift capability of up to 40 tons for movement of bulk cargo that cannot fit inside the current cargo aircraft.

The prospect of a Middle East conflagration has prompted an airlift of senior American officials to Israel to warn of the devastating consequences that an Israeli attack on Iran might have.

62. UNAMIR will require airlift capability for a quick reaction force strength of approximately 100 personnel and for the transport of personnel and limited amounts of essential cargo to inaccessible locations.

The amount is calculated based on the DSA rate outside Cambodia and an amount of 30 per day in Cambodia for approximately 119 persons, decreasing as the airlift fleet is phased out.

Experience has shown the need to do more, particularly over key capabilities such as strategic airlift, helicopters, space assets, and maritime surveillance (as set out in more detail in the Declaration on the Reinforcement of Capabilities).

In the month of November, the humanitarian situation in Sarajevo drastically deteriorated as a result of the suspension of the airlift on 23 November 1994 and the non use of land corridors for humanitarian convoying to Sarajevo.

Meanwhile, the repatriation of Ethiopian refugees from the Sudan to Tigray and neighbouring provinces, which started late in 1993, continued at varying rates of return, both by road and airlift, into 1994, with 25,000 refugees having returned to date.

Furthermore, based on this assessment by the team, and with support from the Governments of Italy, Japan and Luxembourg, an airlift of 22 tons of non food relief items was sent to Nampula, the capital of the most seriously affected province.

From 1946 until 2009, the base hosted an airlift unit, the 103 Gv VTAP ( 103rd Guards Military Air Transport Regiment , full name in Russian 103 й гвардейский Красносельский Краснознамённый военно транспортный авиационный полк имени Героя Советского Союза В. С. Гризодубовой ), flying Ilyushin Il 76 jets.

The prospect of a Middle East conflagration has prompted an airlift of senior American officials to Israel to warn of the devastating consequences that an Israeli attack on Iran might have. Indeed, the Obama administration s main challenge these days is not peacemaking, but regional conflict management and preemption.