Supply Chain Frontiers issue #13. Read all articles in this issue.
Canada’s insufficient strategic airlift capability is not only impacting its military but also undermining the country’s entire economy. That is the viewpoint of current MLOG student Herman Kurapov in his paper that was recently published in Canadian American Strategic Review, a defense policy journal based out of Vancouver.
“There are no long-range, heavy air freighters in Canada, and this seriously undermines the competitiveness of the Canadian economy,” wrote Herman in the paper titled “Strategic Airlift - Boeing C-17 and Antonov An-124-100: A Comparison.”
“This, along with the high purchase cost of strategic airlifters, is why all Canadian taxpayers should be concerned.”
Herman goes on to analyze the pros and cons of different aircraft types that could meet the Canadian Forces’ (CF) strategic lift needs. He examines the ‘models’ for acquisition of a strategic airlifter – whether to purchase, to lease, or to arrange some combination of the two – and then considers the possible strategies for future ‘profit-generating’ operations of this airlifter.
Before joining the MLOG program in August 2005, Herman was a Cargo Sales Manager for Skylink Aviation in Toronto, ON. He has earned an MBA in International Aviation from Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec and a Master of Arts in Humanities from Saratov State University in Russia.
To read Herman’s paper, please visit: http://www.sfu.ca/casr/id-antonov-1.htm