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Air Force World by Aaron M Air Force World By Aaron M. U. Church, Associate Editor Superstorm Aid Guard forces primarily provided com- Twelve C-17s and five C-5s carried munications, shelter, and engineering power-restoration gear and experts to support; evacuation and security capabil- screenshot speed relief efforts in the wake of Hurri- ity; high-water vehicle support; high-water cane Sandy, described by meteorologists search and rescue; debris removal; and as a “superstorm” that knocked out elec- transportation. (For more coverage of tricity to more than 10 million Americans Hurricane Sandy, see box, p.19.) in late October. USAF photo by SSgt. Craig Cisek Active Duty, Air National Guard, and BAE-EADS Quit Merger Talks Air Force Reserve mobility airmen and The potential merger of defense in- machines from 12 bases across the US dustry giants BAE Systems and Euro- began staging at March ARB, Calif., Nov. pean Aeronautic Defence and Space 1. The crews boarded civilian power ex- Co. (EADS) was called off Oct. 10 as perts and loaded 632 tons of equipment the companies responded to European and supplies, including 69 vehicles from government concerns. the Southern California Edison utility The merger would have created the company, for transport to Stewart Air largest defense company—by far—in National Guard Base in Newburgh, N.Y. the world. Among the vehicles were 10 cherry “BAE Systems and EADS believe picker trucks, four line trucks, a flat-bed that the merger was based on a sound digger, eight “trouble trucks,” and a mobile industrial logic” and “would have delivered command center, according to Pentagon tangible benefits to all stakeholders,” spokesman George Little. the companies said in a joint release Once offloaded at Stewart, the vehicles the same day. moved out for power-restoration activities Reuters reported that German govern- in the New York area. “This operation ment resistance was the key stumbling demonstrates the strength of our air block, though BAE Systems chief ex- mobility system, said Col. James Finney, ecutive Ian G. King stated simply that vice commander of March’s 452nd Air the two companies were “disappointed” Mobility Wing, a Reserve unit. that they were unable to “reach an ac- “By leveraging our reserve ceptable agreement” with government component[s], in partnership with our stakeholders. Active Duty airmen, we are able to provide King said the merger would have been rapid response to national requirements,” a “unique opportunity” for both companies he said. “This is Total Force global mobil- “to create a world-leading aerospace, ity at its finest.” defense, and security group.” NY Air Guard Pitch In for Sandy Youngest B-52 Hits 50 New York Air National Guardsmen The last B-52H bomber delivered to deployed for relief efforts in the wake the Air Force and still in service turned of Hurricane Sandy. 50 years old on Oct. 26, manufacturer Seventy-five members of the New Boeing announced. York Air National Guard’s 105th Airlift Stratofortress serial No. 61-040 is Wing in Newburgh deployed to conduct the youngest B-52 in the force and is relief operations in Manhattan. An equal assigned to Minot AFB, N.D. It flies with number of airmen from the state’s 107th the 5th Bomb Wing and was originally Airlift Wing in Niagara Falls staged to delivered from Boeing’s Wichita, Kan., Camp Smith Training Site just north of production plant in October 1962. Peekskill Oct. 31, according to officials. Between 1952 and 1962, Boeing built Both contingents were made up ex- 744 B-52s in eight different models. clusively of volunteers. The New York Today, the Air Force’s B-52 fleet Air Guardsmen were only one element comprises 76 H model aircraft, includ- of some 10,000 National Guard airmen ing two used as test aircraft at Edwards and soldiers aiding in relief efforts across AFB, Calif. 13 eastern seaboard states in the days Barksdale AFB, La., hosts the service’s following the storm, according to the second combat-coded B-52 unit, the Pentagon. 2nd Bomb Wing, as well as Air Force 12 AIR FORCE Magazine / December 2012 Reserve Command’s 307th BW that is “too important a matter to be left in a als for use in nuclear weapons or other runs the B-52 schoolhouse. deadlock forever,” the State Department nuclear explosive devices, stated the The Air Force intends to keep B-52s said, announcing the push Oct. 10. As a news release. in service to around 2040. result, the US is consulting with nuclear The State Department noted that the powers, including China, France, Russia, United States has not produced pluto- White House Pushes Fissile Ban and the United Kingdom, to “find a way nium for weapons since 1988. The Obama Administration is renewing to reach consensus and move forward,” efforts to mandate an end to production according to the State Department. Western Peacemaker of fissile materials for nuclear weapons The treaty would be “the next funda- The Pentagon issued its Western through a Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty. mental step towards multilateral nuclear Hemisphere Defense Policy Statement The Administration deems that secur- disarmament,” as it would ban, for the in October, outlining the US military’s ing a multilateral, verifiable agreement first time, the production of fissile materi- mission and roles close to home in sup- An F-16 launches from Osan AB, South Korea, for a sortie during operational readi- ness exercise Beverly Bulldog 13-01. The exercise tests airmen’s ability to provide combat ready forces for close air support, counterair interdiction, air strike control, 11.06.2012 airlift, and communications in the defense of South Korea. AIR FORCE Magazine / December 2012 13 Air Force World USAF photo TSgt.by Parker Gyokeres port of the Obama Administration’s new “Specifically, DOD will support the Drop It Like It’s Hot: A C-130J defense guidance. role of defense institutions in address- assigned to Little Rock AFB, Ark., “We will seek to be the security partner ing the threats of the 21st century, help performs an engine-running offload at of choice, enhancing existing partner- partners develop mature and profes- Fort Polk, La. The aircraft performed a resupply mission during joint readi- ships and pursuing new ones with na- sional forces, and promote integration ness training exercise Decisive Action, tions whose interests and viewpoints are and interoperability.” which emphasized joint forcible entry, merging into a common vision of freedom, The United States will also seek to noncombatant evacuation, wide-area stability, and prosperity,” according to the strengthen “multilateral linkages and security, and unified land operations in DOD document released Oct. 4. mechanisms for defense cooperation.” a joint service and interagency environ- In an era of tight resources, the ment. Defense Department “will focus its se- Second Hold for X-37B curity cooperation efforts” on activities The Air Force and United Launch in October and aimed instead for a late that “enhance partnering bilaterally and Alliance delayed launching an X-37B November launch. The delays stem from regionally, based on shared security reusable spaceplane atop an Atlas V the booster; Air Force spokeswoman interests,” the statement said. rocket from Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla., Maj. Tracy Bunko affirmed that “there is no problem” with the X-37 vehicle itself. The launch delay will give engineers Record Year for US Arms Sales more time to analyze the data from the anomaly of a Delta IV RL-10B-2 upper- The United States “dominated” the world in conventional arms sales last stage engine during a GPS IIF satellite fiscal year, totaling $66.3 billion in arms transfer agreements to developing launch in October, according to ULA, and developed nations, according to the Congressional Research Service. which supplies both the Atlas and Delta “This is the highest single-year agreements total in the history of the US rockets. arms export program,” CRS said in its report discussing FMS transactions This mission, designated OTV-3, will during 2011. be the second journey to space for the US sales accounted for 77.7 percent of the world’s total arms sales—$85.3 Air Force’s first X-37 orbital test vehicle. billion—during 2011. Total arms sales had substantially increased from $44.5 This flight will demonstrate the craft is billion in 2010, according to the report released earlier this year. indeed reusable. The October launch was However, authors Richard F. Grimmett and Paul K. Kerr said that much initially rescheduled for Nov. 13, before of the US spike was due to the atypical sale of $33.7 billion of weapons to being pushed to the end of November. Saudi Arabia, including 84 new-build F-15SA fighters. “Although the Atlas V that will launch “The international arms market is not likely growing overall,” they wrote. OTV-3 utilizes a different model of the Instead, “the weakened state of the global economy” has “generally limited RL-10 engine, ULA leadership and the defense purchases.” OTV customer have decided to postpone the currently scheduled launch to allow 14 AIR FORCE Magazine / December 2012 an additional two weeks for the flight data anomaly investigation,” said ULA officials. F-35A Drops First Weapons At the beginning of November, ULA said the investigation was progressing An F-35A dropped a 2,000-pound Joint Direct Attack Munition over the well, but USAF and company officials China Lake range in southern California, Oct. 16, marking the first time the were postponing the launch another Air Force variant of the fighter has dropped a bomb. two weeks to more thoroughly probe AF-1, flown by Maj. Eric Schultz, released the weapon from the F-35’s left the problem and conduct a “thorough internal weapons bay, becoming the second F-35 overall to drop a weapon crossover assessment” for the X-37B in flight.
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