A REVIEW ON AIRBORNE INTELLIGENCE: AI-ENABLED SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGIES FOR THE INDIAN AIR FORCE (IAF)
Keywords:
Indian Air Force, AI logistics, predictive maintenance, spares optimization, airlift routing, digital twin, reinforcement learning, MRO, MIL/defence supply chain, ACE.Abstract
Air power depends on logistics excellence. For the Indian Air Force(IAF), dispersed basing, high-tech platforms, volatile demand for spares, andcontested electromagnetic/cyber environments raise the bar for supplychain performance. This review synthesizes advances in artificial intelligence(AI) and data-centric methods that can transform
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