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General Category => Military/Defense News => Topic started by: rangerrebew on May 14, 2017, 08:49:14 am
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Not Enough C-17s, Tankers Or Ships For Hot War: TRANSCOM
By Colin Clark on May 02, 2017 at 5:18 PM
WASHINGTON: Believe it or not, the global command responsible for getting weapons, fuel, and food to troops had, until recently, never used a war game for planning. Nor did Transportation Command factor into its plans the possibility that transport ships would be sunk and transport planes would be shot down . On top of that, TRANSCOM doesn’t have enough ships, airborne tankers or cargo aircraft to get a large number of troops to a battlefield and sustain them.
http://breakingdefense.com/2017/05/not-enough-c-17s-tankers-or-ships-for-hot-war-transcom/