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ROCKET SCIENCE Spacex Enters the Military Space Launch Fray INSIDE: B-52s will fly to 2050 p. 16 |DOD leadership under Trump p. 42 |When Bears threaten America p. 52 ROCKET SCIENCE SpaceX enters the military space launch fray. Can it challenge mighty ULA? April/May 2018 $8 Published by the Air Force Association April / May 2018. Vol. 101, No. 4 FEATURES STAFF Publisher Larry O. Spencer Editor in Chief Adam J. Hebert 16 Managing Editor Juliette Kelsey Chagnon Editorial Director 58 John A. Tirpak News Editor Amy McCullough Assistant Managing Editor Chequita Wood Senior Designer 34 Dashton Parham Pentagon Editor 12 Speeding Up Space 27 The Wright Decision 46 Rocket Science Brian W. Everstine By Wilson Brissett By Gideon Grudo By Gideon Grudo Senior Editor Should USAF’s operationally CMSAF Kaleth Wright is The Air Force makes military Steve Hirsch responsive space o ice working to get airmen’s lives space look easy. It is not. Digital Platforms Editor morph into a rapid back in balance. 52 Intercepting the Bear Gideon Grudo capabilities o ice for space? 34 Red Air For Hire By John T. Correll Production Manager 16 Bombers in 2050 By Amy McCullough The Tu-95 Bear is still flying— Eric Chang Lee By John A. Tirpak The Air Force needs every and still testing air defenses Photo Editor USAF plans to retire the B-1 fighter it can spare for real- around the perimeter of North Mike Tsukamoto and B-2 in the 2030s, while world missions. Are private America. the B-52 remains in service aggressors the wave of the 58 Doc’s Saga Contributors until 2050. future? By Frederick A. Johnsen Wilson Brissett, John T. Correll, 22 The Tanker’s Trying Time 42 DOD Senior Leaders Getting the B-29 Doc flying Rachel Cox, Robert S. Dudney, Jennifer Hlad, Frederick A. By Brian W. Everstine Compiled by Chequita Wood again took decades of Johnsen After a tough 2017, the KC-46 Who’s who in the Trump perseverance. tanker is inching closer to defense administration. reality. ADVERTISING: Arthur Bartholomew DEPARTMENTS 213.596.7239 Tom Buttrick 2 Editorial: Nuclear 6 Aperture 63 Wingman: AFA Emerging 917.421.9051 Rohrshach Test By John A. Tirpak Leaders James G. Elliott Co., Inc. By Adam J. Hebert [email protected] 8 Forward Deployed 64 Namesakes: Travis People see what they wish By Jennifer Hlad in it, but the Nuclear Posture SUBSCRIBE Review prescribes exactly 9 Air Force World & SAVE what’s needed. 21 Verbatim Subscribe to Air Force 3 Letters Magazine and save big o 32 Screenshot the cover price, plus get a 4 Index to Advertisers free membership to the Air Force Association. Call 1-800-727-3337 FOLLOW US GET THE ON THE COVER A SpaceX rocket booster lifts a payload into space. See “Rocket Science,” p. facebook.com/ twitter.com/ instagram.com/ airforcemag airforcemag airforcemag 46. Photo by SpaceX. Air Force Magazine (ISSN 0730-6784) April / May 2018 (Vol. 101, No.4) is published monthly, except for two double issues in April/May and October/November, by the Air Force Association, 1501 Lee Highway, Arlington, VA 22209-1198. Phone (703) 247-5800. Periodical postage paid at Arlington, Va., and additional mailing o ices. Membership Rate: $50 per year; $35 e-Membership; $125 for three-year membership. Subscription Rate: $50 per year; $29 per year additional for postage to foreign addresses (except Canada and Mexico, which are $10 per year additional). Regular issues $8 each. USAF Almanac issue $18 each. Change of address requires four weeks’ notice. Please include mailing label. POSTMASTER: Send changes of address to Air Force Association, 1501 Lee Highway, Arlington, VA 22209-1198. Publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material. Trademark registered by Air Force Association. Copyright 2018 by Air Force Association. APRIL / MAY ★ AIRFORCEMAG.COM Editorial By Adam J. Hebert, Editor in Chief Nuclear Rohrshach Test “We must modernize and rebuild our nuclear arsenal, hopefully never having to use it, but making it so strong and powerful that it will deter any acts of aggression,” President Donald Trump asserted in his February 2018 State of the Union address. “Perhaps someday in the future there will be a magical moment when the countries of the world will get together to eliminate their nuclear weapons,” he continued. “Unfortunately, we are not there yet.” People see what they wish in it, but the Nuclear Posture Review prescribes exactly what’s needed A B61-12 test unit is dropped from an F-15E during a development flight test in 2015. Former President Barack Obama’s vision, articulated in Prague in 2009, was to put nuclear disarmament first while maintaining a noted. Examples include flight-testing weapons and performing credible arsenal. Trump’s vision reverses this and says strengthen stockpile stewardship computer simulations. the nuclear arsenal first. There are no plans to conduct an actual nuclear test, as the What happened in the intervening nine years? Russia hap - US has had a self-imposed “Big T” testing moratorium in place pened. since 1992. When Obama was elected, hopes ran high that Russia would “The United States remains committed to its eorts in support evolve into a peaceful actor. As the 2010 Nuclear Posture Review of the ultimate global elimination of nuclear, biological, and put it, “Russia is not an enemy and is increasingly a partner.” chemical weapons,” the NPR reads. The US has reduced its nu - The New START agreement, signed that year by Obama and clear stockpile from a peak of 31,000 weapons to 4,000 and has then-Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, limits the US and Russia deployed no new nuclear capabilities in two decades. to 1,550 deployed strategic launchers through February 2021. Still, antinuclear critics are beside themselves. In a master- Things have gone downhill since then. Russia, China, Iran, stroke of hyperbole, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists this year and North Korea are not interested in following the US lead on moved its “Doomsday Clock,” which “warns the public about how nuclear reductions. They are brutally self-interested and see close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technolo - much to gain by improving their own nuclear forces. gies of our own making,” to two minutes to midnight. This is “the In 2014, Russia invaded Ukraine and illegally seized Crimea. closest the Clock has ever been to Doomsday.” It steadily ramped up rhetoric and aggression toward its neigh- Similarly, Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) said the NPR “lowers bors and the United States and repeatedly violated arms control the threshold for use of nuclear weapons,” repeating a canard agreements and international law. “We must look reality in the that seemingly resurfaces with every new nuclear review or eye and see the world as it is, not as we wish it to be,” Defense strategy. Secretary James Mattis wrote in his introduction to the NPR. If the only options are unusable nuclear weapons, “are we then In response, the NPR lays out specific force-structure plans. back to the doctrine of massive retaliation, from which every Ohio-class nuclear missile subs will be replaced by next gen - American administration since the 1950s has sought to escape eration Columbia-class boomers; the Ground-Based Strategic because of the lack of credibility of the choice it posed between Deterrent (GBSD) will begin replacing Minuteman III ICBMs; suicide and surrender?” asked Henry Kissinger … in 1990. the next generation B-21 bomber will supplant the B-2 stealth People see what they want to see in this NPR. The review is bomber; and Long-Range Stando (LRSO) cruise missiles will short on hope, long on reality. It oers exactly the nuclear road - replace old Air-Launched Cruise Missiles. map the US needs right now. The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), which “I hope everyone understands that it is better to not mess ensures the safety, security, and eectiveness of nuclear weapons, with Russia,” Putin bluntly stated in August 2014, in the midst of is accelerating some programs begun under Obama. NNSA is his invasion of Ukraine. “I have to remind you that Russia is a modernizing warheads and developing the B61-12 nuclear bomb nuclear superpower.” to consolidate multiple old weapons and oer greater accuracy This “environment makes further progress toward nuclear arms and reliability. reductions in the near-term extremely challenging,” Mattis wrote. The US will also develop new, lower-yield nuclear cruise mis - “Ensuring our nuclear deterrent remains strong will provide the siles for Navy use and will shorten the time needed to conduct best opportunity for convincing other nuclear powers to engage a “live” nuclear test. in meaningful arms control initiatives.” America’s “test readiness posture has not changed,” said USAF New START expires in 2021. The US should pursue an advan- Brig. Gen. Michael J. Lutton, who is responsible for military appli- tageous new arms control agreement before then, but to do so cation at NNSA. Little “t” testing takes place all the time, Lutton it must negotiate from a position of strength. Security Nuclear Administration National Photo: APRIL / MAY ★ AIRFORCEMAG.COM Letters Rare-Earth Now Rare in US to get ahead of this potential problem? teams to elevate bases and programs The recent issue contains an article Or are we going to allow our lesser com- for computer security risks. about how the rare-earth elements have petitors to get ahead of us on this front? There is so much more to this history seemingly been corralled by the Chinese Norman Gaines that should be told to the Air Force [“Rare-Earth Uncertainty,” February, p. Hartsdale, NY as the events that took place at Air 52]. Force Space Command, what went into One of the past candidates at either Before Cyber the planning of the Air Force Security the Air War College or combined schools, A great article on the state of the Program and its writing of the first Air Col.
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