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US Strategic Air Base, F-35 fighter jet shelter

2022-06-26 21:56:35Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
US Strategic Air Base, F-35 fighter jet shelter
US Army Air Base

The U.S. military has spent hundreds of millions of dollars transforming an air base on the northeastern tip of the country in Alaska, near the Arctic Circle. Voice of America correspondent Carla Babb recently visited the base, which houses multibillion-dollar fighter jets that can capture every corner of the northern hemisphere.

This is the beginning of a day at the American air base "Eielson" in Alaska, where temperatures in winter reach -45 degrees Celsius and in summer up to 25 degrees Celsius.

"One of our challenges is maintaining the equipment, because it was not built to operate in such extreme temperatures," Air Force Colonel Stuart Williamson told VOA.

Thankfully, the Air Force has some equipment, which works quite well in cold weather, giant supercomputers.

"Fighter planes are supercomputers. Computers work very well in cold temperatures. But cold weather poses many challenges, such as refueling aircraft and transporting aircraft to runways. "Even if you touch metal surfaces, it is impossible to burn your hand," says military man Brian Bucholtz.

Even with the right winter clothing, at temperatures of -28 degrees Celsius, teams can work outside for 10 minutes and then have to go inside to warm up for 50 minutes.

"It takes six people to do the job that an individual can do in an hour under normal conditions," military spokesman Brian Bucholtz told VOA.

Spring and summer bring their extremes. During the VOA team visit, the melting snow turned the base into a swamp, where the noise of water pumps competes with aircraft engines.

"Here we store over 100,000 parts of the F-35 aircraft," said Chief of Logistics Colonel Adam Starkey.

"It's the most challenging task I've ever had with the Air Force. "It is a great experience to deploy F-35 aircraft in the Arctic, understanding the challenges we face."

Everyone at Eielson Base knows the saying of the Air Force icon. In 1935, General Billy Mitchell told Congress: “Whoever holds Alaska will have the world. "I think it is the most important and strategic place in the world."

More than 85 years later, the expansion of the Eielson base between the Arctic extremes highlights how the state of Alaska continues to be a strategic point of American defense./VOA


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