Jirgin sama mai ɗaukar hankali na rundunar sojin sama mai tsayi, mai suna U-2 Dragon Lady, kwanan nan ya tashi da kyamarar daukar hoto ta ƙarshe a sansanin sojojin sama na Bill.
Kamar yadda na 2 ya bayyana. Laftanar Hailey M. Toledo, Sashen Hulɗa da Jama'a na Sashen Bincike na 9, a cikin labarin "Ƙarshen Zamani: U-2s akan Aikin OBC na Ƙarshe," aikin OBC zai ɗauki hotuna masu tsayi da rana kuma zai koma gaban tallafi. Hukumar Kula da Bayanai ta Ƙasa ta samar da wurin yaƙin. Wannan matakin yana ba da damar na'urar sarrafawa ta haɗa fim ɗin kusa da tarin leƙen asiri da ake buƙata don aikin.
Adam Marigliani, kwararre kan tallafawa injiniyan sararin samaniya na Collins, ya ce: "Wannan taron ya rufe babi na tsawon shekaru da dama a sansanin sojojin sama na Bill da kuma sarrafa fina-finai kuma ya bude sabon babi a duniyar dijital."
Collins Aerospace ta yi aiki tare da rundunar leƙen asiri ta 9 a sansanin sojojin sama na Beale don sauke hotunan OBC daga ayyukan U-2 a faɗin duniya don tallafawa manufofin sojojin sama.
Aikin OBC ya yi aiki a Bill AFB na kusan shekaru 52, tare da farko U-2 OBC da aka tura daga Beale AFB a 1974. An ɗauko daga SR-71, an gyara OBC kuma an gwada tashi don tallafawa dandamalin U-2, wanda ya maye gurbin firikwensin IRIS na dogon lokaci. Duk da cewa tsawon IRIS mai inci 24 yana ba da fa'ida mai faɗi, tsawon OBC mai inci 30 yana ba da damar ƙaruwa mai yawa a ƙuduri.
"U-2 tana riƙe da ikon yin ayyukan OBC a duk faɗin duniya da kuma ƙarfin tura sojoji masu ƙarfi lokacin da ake buƙata," in ji Laftanar Kanar James Gayser, kwamandan rundunar leƙen asiri ta 99.
An tura OBC don tallafawa ayyuka daban-daban, ciki har da agajin guguwar Katrina, bala'in tashar makamashin nukiliya ta Fukushima Daiichi, da Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, da kuma hadin gwiwa na rundunar tsaro ta Horn of Africa.
Yayin da suke aiki a faɗin Afghanistan, U-2 ta ɗauki hoton dukkan ƙasar a duk bayan kwana 90, kuma rundunonin da ke cikin Ma'aikatar Tsaro sun yi amfani da hotunan OBC don tsara ayyukan.
"Duk matukan jirgin U-2 za su riƙe ilimin da ƙwarewar amfani da na'urori masu auna firikwensin a wurare daban-daban na aiki da kuma wurare daban-daban don biyan buƙatun tattara bayanai na kwamandan mayaƙan yanki," in ji Geiser. "Yayin da buƙatar buƙatun tattara bayanai daban-daban ke ci gaba da ƙaruwa, shirin U-2 zai bunƙasa don ci gaba da dacewar yaƙi ga iyawar C5ISR-T daban-daban da kuma ayyukan haɗakar sojojin sama."
Rufe Ofishin Jakadancin Amurka a Bill AFB yana bawa sassan ayyukan agaji da abokan hulɗa damar mai da hankali kan iyawar gaggawa, dabaru, dabaru da hanyoyin aiki, da kuma ra'ayoyin aiki waɗanda ke tallafawa matsalar barazanar gaggawa da aka tsara don ciyar da dukkan ayyukan sashen bincike na 9 gaba.
Jirgin U-2 yana ba da sa ido mai tsayi, mai amfani da duk wani yanayi, dare ko rana, don tallafawa sojojin Amurka da ƙawayenta kai tsaye. Yana ba da hotuna masu mahimmanci da kuma nuna bayanai ga masu yanke shawara a duk lokacin rikici, gami da alamun zaman lafiya da gargaɗi, rikici mai ƙarancin ƙarfi da kuma manyan tashin hankali.
U-2 na iya tattara hotuna iri-iri, gami da samfuran radar mai amfani da hasken lantarki mai yawa, infrared da na roba waɗanda za a iya adanawa ko aika su zuwa cibiyoyin haɓaka ƙasa. Bugu da ƙari, yana tallafawa ɗaukar hoto mai faɗi da faffadan yanayi da kyamarorin zare masu haske ke bayarwa waɗanda ke samar da samfuran fina-finai na gargajiya, waɗanda aka ƙirƙira kuma aka yi nazari a kansu bayan sun sauka.
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Lokacin Saƙo: Yuli-21-2022
