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This Download Centre provides regularly updated Presentations, articles and sector reports coordinated with the Air Tankers and Aerial Refuelling event. Many are featured from the Defence IQ portal, www.defenceiq.com.

These resources are free for you to access – simply fill in the download forms and start the learning process before, during and after the conference!

Featured Content of the Month

• Air Force Africa Gets Down to the Business of Building Continental Ties
  Defence IQ had the opportunity to discuss a critical component of the AFRICOM (US Africa Command) mission with USAF Major Andrei Mitran - and that component is air mobility. Major Mitran is Chief of the Air Refueling Control Team within the 617th Air Operations Command and he describes how tankers are supporting a broader range of continental needs - whether that is medical evacuation, airlift or logistics support. How do US forces benefit from building African synergy and a self-supporting capacity and why is this important to the US military? Major Mitran gives us some pretty enlightening answers.
  Listen to the full podcast now!

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Podcast

• 'Passing Gas at 35 Grand': Airbus Military Talks A330 Airborne Tanker Capabilities
  Pablo Quesada, the Head of Market Development for Airbus Military, and specifically the A330, speaks to Defence IQ in this exclusive podcast interview. Pablo deals directly with the MRTT programme - multi role tanker transport - and highlights its capability in regards to airborne refuelling. The interview also sheds light on contributing nations' strategic requirements for the A330, as well as how Cassidian, at large, is changing to meet market demand.
  Listen to the full podcast.

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Article

• US Air Force Africa Challenge: Building Cooperative Air Support One Nation at a Time
  How can tanker aircraft be utilised in a way that can directly benefit multi-national aid efforts on the African continent? This paper focuses on two basic elements of the thread for such endeavours: cooperation and synergy
  Read the article now

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Presentations

• Configurable Air Transport (CAT): A 21st Century Revolution in Air Mobility
  Presented by Mike Snead, P.E.
• AAR Sweden
  Presented by Maj Jan Larsson, Air Component Command, A0 (requirements), SwAF
• AAR – The Strategic Backdrop
  Presented by Pete Gray, RAeS Senior Research Fellow in Air Power Studies, University of Birmingham

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Sector Reports

• Air Tanker Sector Report 2009
• Aerial Targets Sector Report

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Press Release

• AUSAF 340th Expeditionary Air Refuelling Squadron Discusses Ageing Aircrafts and Future Requirements at Aerial Refuelling Conference
  

  19th October 2011, London, UK -

  Lieutenant Colonel Michael B. Frymire from the US Air Force's 340th Expeditionary Air Refuelling Squadron will be leading a session at the upcoming Air Tankers & Aerial Refuelling conference, taking place 25th-27th January 2011 at the CCT Smithfield, London.
  
  Drawing from recent operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, Lieutenant Colonel Frymire will discuss the limitations of working with an ageing airframe and identify future requirements. This session is part of a 2-day agenda, which ties in lessons from recent refuelling operations with ongoing work in maintenance, upgrade and clearance programmes to outline how future AAR capability can be made more cost effective.
  
  View the full press release.

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