The Proposal of Demand Estimation of Repairable Items for the Weapon Systems During the Initial Support Period: F-16 Case Study

Every country that has military systems such as aircraft, radar, warship or tank has to meet the operational needs of those military systems in order to keep them ready for military operations. logistics support needs are defined basically either before or after procurement. if they are defined before procurement, they are called “initial support requirement”, otherwise called “sustainment support requirement”. due to the fact that new system will be added into the turkish military inventory, it is focused on the initial support requirement phase. in addition to that, it is focused on repairable items since most of the material acquisition cost within the initial support budget is allocated to repairable items. in this study, within the scope of initial support requirements, the method that produces much better results in terms of quantity and cost perspective than the ones used in turkey and usa is established and demonstrated by using real data set of f-16.