Nō nā tata nei te rere a te waka rererangi tirotiro teitei, ka taea te whakamahi i ngā āhuatanga katoa o te rangi, te U-2 Dragon Lady, i tana misioni kāmera whatu whakamutunga ki te Bill Air Force Base.
E ai ki te whakamārama a te tuarua. I roto i te tuhinga "End of an Era: U-2s on Last OBC Mission," ka tangohia e te misioni OBC ngā whakaahua o te teitei i te awatea, ā, ka neke ki mua o te tautoko. Nā te National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency i whakarato te wāhi whawhai. Mā tēnei nekehanga ka taea e te tukatuka te whakauru i te kiriata kia tata atu ki te kohinga tirotiro e hiahiatia ana mō te misioni.
I mea atu a Adam Marigliani, te Tohunga Tautoko Hangarau Rererangi o Collins: "Ka kati tēnei huihuinga i tētahi upoko tekau tau te roa i roto i te Bill Air Force Base me te tukatuka kiriata, ā, ka whakatuwhera i tētahi upoko hou i roto i te ao matihiko."
I mahi tahi a Collins Aerospace me te 9th Intelligence Squadron i te Beale Air Force Base ki te tango i ngā whakaahua OBC mai i ngā misioni U-2 huri noa i te ao hei tautoko i ngā whāinga a te Air Force.
I whakahaerehia te misioni OBC i Bill AFB mō te tata ki te 52 tau, me te U-2 OBC tuatahi i whakatinanahia mai i Beale AFB i te tau 1974. I tangohia mai i te SR-71, i whakarerekētia te OBC, ā, i whakamatautauria te rere hei tautoko i te tūāpapa U-2, hei whakakapi i te pūoko IRIS tawhito. Ahakoa he whānui te kapinga o te arotahi 24-inihi o te IRIS, ka taea e te roa arotahi 30-inihi o te OBC te whakanui ake i te taumira.
"Kei te mau tonu te kaha o te U-2 ki te mahi i ngā misioni OBC i te ao whānui, me ngā āheinga whakatinanatanga kaha hihiri ina hiahiatia," te kī a Rūtene Kānara James Gayser, te rangatira o te 99th Reconnaissance Squadron.
Kua whakamahia te OBC hei tautoko i ngā momo misioni, tae atu ki te awhina i a Hurricane Katrina, te aituā i te tipu hiko karihi o Fukushima Daiichi, me ngā mahi a Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, me te Joint Task Force Horn of Africa.
I a ia e rere ana i runga ake i Afghanistan, i tangohia e te U-2 ngā whakaahua o te whenua katoa i ia 90 rā, ā, i whakamahia e ngā ope taua puta noa i te Tari Tiaki ngā whakaahua o te OBC ki te whakamahere i ngā mahi.
"Ka mau tonu i ngā pailate U-2 katoa te mātauranga me ngā pūkenga ki te whakamahi i ngā pūoko puta noa i ngā huinga misioni me ngā wāhi mahi hei whakatutuki i ngā hiahia kohikohi mōhiohio matua a te rangatira whawhai whenua," te kī a Geiser. "I te mea kei te tipu haere tonu te hiahia mō ngā whakaritenga kohikohi kanorau, ka whanake te kaupapa U-2 ki te pupuri i te hiranga o te whawhai ki ngā kaha C5ISR-T me ngā tūranga whakauru whawhai a te Ope Taua Rererangi."
Mā te katinga o te OBC i Bill AFB ka taea e ngā wae misioni me ngā hoa mahi te arotahi nui ake ki ngā āheinga ohorere, ngā rautaki, ngā tikanga me ngā tukanga, me ngā ariā mahi e tautoko tika ana i te raruraru mōrearea tere kua whakaritea hei whakatairanga i te misioni katoa o te 9th Reconnaissance Wing.
Ka whakaratohia e te U-2 he tirotiro me te tirotiro i ngā wāhi teitei, i ngā āhuatanga katoa o te rangi, i te ao, i te pō rānei, hei tautoko tika i ngā ope taua o Amerika me ngā hoa whawhai. Ka whakaratohia he whakaahua arohaehae, ā, ka tukuna he tohu mōhiohio ki ngā kaiwhakatau i ngā wāhanga katoa o te pakanga, tae atu ki ngā tohu me ngā whakatūpato i te wā rangimārie, ngā pakanga iti me ngā pakanga nui.
Ka taea e te U-2 te kohikohi i ngā momo whakaahua, tae atu ki ngā hua radar hiko-whatu maha-āhua, infrared me te aperture hangai ka taea te penapena, te tuku rānei ki ngā pokapū whanaketanga whenua. Hei tāpiri, ka tautokohia e ia te kapinga huarere taumira teitei, whānui-rohe e whakaratohia ana e ngā kāmera rīpene whatu e whakaputa ana i ngā hua kiriata tuku iho, e whakawhanakehia ana, e tātarihia ana i muri i te taunga.
Tikina ngā purongo rererangi, ngā kōrero me ngā āhuatanga pai rawa atu mai i The Aviation Geek Club i roto i tā mātou pānui, ka tukuna tika atu ki tō pouakaroto.
Te wā tuku: Hurae-21-2022
