Ua lele koke aku nei ka mokulele kiʻi kiʻekiʻe a kūpono hoʻi i nā ʻano āpau o ka Air Force, ʻo ia hoʻi ka U-2 Dragon Lady, i kāna mikiona kāmela ʻāpana optical hope loa ma Bill Air Force Base.
E like me ka wehewehe ʻana o ka lua. ʻO Lieutenant Hailey M. Toledo, 9th Reconnaissance Wing Public Affairs, ma ka ʻatikala "End of an Era: U-2s on Last OBC Mission," e lawe ka misionari OBC i nā kiʻi kiʻekiʻe i ke ao a e neʻe i mua o ke kākoʻo. Ua hāʻawi ʻia ke kahua kaua e ka National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. ʻAe kēia neʻe i ka mea hana e hoʻohui i ke kiʻiʻoniʻoni kokoke i ka hōʻiliʻili reconnaissance e pono ai no ka misionari.
Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Adam Marigliani, ʻo Collins Aerospace Engineering Support Specialist: "Hoʻopau kēia hanana i kahi mokuna he ʻumi makahiki ma Bill Air Force Base a me ka hana ʻana i nā kiʻiʻoniʻoni a wehe i kahi mokuna hou i ka honua kikohoʻe."
Ua hana pū ʻo Collins Aerospace me ka 9th Intelligence Squadron ma Beale Air Force Base e hoʻoiho i nā kiʻi OBC mai nā misionari U-2 a puni ka honua i mea e kākoʻo ai i nā pahuhopu o ka Air Force.
Ua hana ka misionari OBC ma Bill AFB no kahi kokoke i 52 mau makahiki, me ka U-2 OBC mua i hoʻolaha ʻia mai Beale AFB i ka makahiki 1974. Lawe ʻia mai ka SR-71, ua hoʻololi ʻia ʻo OBC a ua hoʻāʻo ʻia ka lele ʻana e kākoʻo i ka paepae U-2, e pani ana i ka sensor IRIS lōʻihi. ʻOiai ʻo ka lōʻihi o ka focal 24-'īniha o ka IRIS e hāʻawi i ka uhi ākea, ʻo ka lōʻihi o ka focal 30-'īniha o ka OBC e ʻae i ka hoʻonui nui ʻana i ka hoʻonā.
"Mālama ka U-2 i ka hiki ke hoʻokō i nā misionari OBC ma ka pae honua a me nā mana hoʻolaha ikaika i ka wā e pono ai," wahi a Lt. Col. James Gayser, ke alakaʻi o ka 99th Reconnaissance Squadron.
Ua hoʻouna ʻia ʻo OBC e kākoʻo i nā ʻano misionari like ʻole, e like me ke kōkua ʻana i ka wā o ka Hurricane Katrina, ka hanana o ka hale hana mana nukelea ʻo Fukushima Daiichi, a me nā hana ʻo Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, a me Joint Task Force Horn of Africa.
ʻOiai e hana ana ma luna o Afghanistan, ua kiʻi ka U-2 i ka ʻāina holoʻokoʻa i kēlā me kēia 90 mau lā, a ua hoʻohana nā ʻāpana ma loko o ke Keʻena Pale Kaua i nā kiʻi o ka OBC e hoʻolālā i nā hana.
"E mālama nā pailota U-2 āpau i ka ʻike a me nā mākau e hoʻohana i nā mea ʻike ma nā ʻano misionari like ʻole a me nā wahi hana e hoʻokō ai i nā pono hōʻiliʻili ʻike koʻikoʻi o ke alakaʻi koa honua," wahi a Geiser. "I ka hoʻomau ʻana o ka pono no nā koi hōʻiliʻili like ʻole, e ulu ka papahana U-2 e mālama i ka pilina kaua i nā hiki C5ISR-T like ʻole a me nā kuleana hoʻohui Air Force kaua."
ʻO ka pani ʻana o ka OBC ma Bill AFB e ʻae i nā ʻāpana misionari a me nā hoa hana e kālele i ka ikehu nui aʻe i nā hiki pilikia, nā hana hoʻolālā, nā ʻenehana a me nā kaʻina hana, a me nā manaʻo hana e kākoʻo pololei ana i ka pilikia hoʻoweliweli wikiwiki i hoʻonohonoho ʻia e hoʻolaha i ka misionari holoʻokoʻa 9th Reconnaissance Wing.
Hāʻawi ka U-2 i ka nānā ʻana a me ka ʻimi ʻana i nā wahi kiʻekiʻe, i nā manawa āpau, i ke ao a i ka pō, ma ke kākoʻo pololei ʻana i nā pūʻali koa US a me nā hui pili. Hāʻawi ia i nā kiʻi koʻikoʻi a hōʻailona i ka ʻike i nā mea hoʻoholo i nā wā āpau o ka hakakā, me nā hōʻailona a me nā ʻōlelo aʻo no ka wā maluhia, nā hakakā haʻahaʻa a me nā kaua nui.
Hiki i ka U-2 ke hōʻiliʻili i nā ʻano kiʻi like ʻole, me nā huahana radar electro-optical multispectral, infrared a me synthetic aperture i hiki ke mālama ʻia a hoʻouna ʻia paha i nā kikowaena hoʻomohala honua. Eia kekahi, kākoʻo ia i ka uhi ʻana o ke aniau kiʻekiʻe, ākea i hāʻawi ʻia e nā kāmela kaha optical e hana ana i nā huahana kiʻiʻoniʻoni kuʻuna, i hoʻomohala ʻia a kālailai ʻia ma hope o ko lākou pae ʻana.
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Ka manawa hoʻouna: Iulai-21-2022
