The tanking system used by Global Emergency Response can fit into any Il-76 and there are 100s of them in varying states of repair from brand new to fair. These aircraft fly daily in cargo duty throughout the world. Tanking systems can be manufactured in short order as they are simply large aluminum cannisters with huge sealed hatches in the rear. The Il-76 is large enough to handle the biggest fires that cause 95 percent of the forest destruction globally.

There is no good reason this uniquely capable aerial firefighter could not now be deployed to stop unwanted burning everywhere: from urban interface and agricultural areas in Australia, California, and Florida, to bush, savanna, and rainforest in Latin America and Southeast Asia, to the great boreal forests of the north and the grasslands of Africa.