It had a range of 1,225 miles with, or 1,370 miles without, a bomb load. While it wasn’t the most graceful looking machine, it had a maximum speed of 252 mph in level flight and could reach 276 mph in a dive. An additional 174 SBDs were ordered as the SBD-3. The fall of France in the late spring of 1940, punctuated by the scream of the dive-bombing Junkers Ju-87 “Stuka” impressed military planners in Washington, and highlighted the value of a dive bomber. Just a year later, Douglas received an order for fifty-seven SDB-1 and then eighty-seven SBD-2 aircraft. The first Dauntless, a modified XBT-2, was test-flown on April 22, 1938. “We must not let narco-terrorists exploit the pandemic to threaten American lives.” U.S.The dive-bomber owed its origins to the low-wing, two-set Northrop BT-1 dive-bomber of 1938, and to the superb design work of Jack Northrop and of the mild-tempered and brilliant Edward H. “We’re deploying additional Navy destroyers, combat ships, aircraft & helicopters, Coast Guard Cutters.doubling our capabilities in the region." Today, President Trump announced enhanced counter-narcotics efforts in the #SOUTHCOM Area of Responsibility. State Department's Media Hub of the Americas-hosted telephonic press briefing with the Commander of U.S. SOUTHCOM Commander Telephonic Press Briefing on Enhanced Counter Narcotics OperationsĪudio and transcript of U.S. Southern Command personnel following a briefing on enhanced counternarcotics operations at Southcom headquarters in Doral, Fla., July 10, 2020. WATCH: President Visits SOUTHCOM For Briefing on Enhanced Counter Narcotics Operations of State's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs of State's International Narcotics Control Strategy Reports and partner nation aircraft the use of existing airfields to support the region’s multinational efforts to Combat Transnational Organized Crime. The CSLs are strategic, cost-effective locations in Comalapa, El Salvador and Aruba-Curacao, formerly part of the Netherlands Antilles, which allow U.S. military's two Cooperative Security Locations (CSLs), formerly known as Forward Operating Locations, in Latin America and the Caribbean. Learn more about Campaign Martillo, an ongoing U.S., European, and Western Hemisphere partner nation effort targeting illicit trafficking routes in coastal waters along the Central American isthmus. Learn more about SOUTHCOM's support to interagency and multinational efforts to Counter Transnational Criminal Organizationsin the Western Hemisphere. Our multilateral counter-narcotics operations will be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic as supporting nations turn inward. Reassure allies and partners build their capacity to contribute to the counternarcotics fightĭrugs pose a threat to the homeland as drug overdoses kill around 70,000 Americans each year. Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic, increase drug trafficking and can easily contribute to the spread of the virus. Purpose:ĭisrupt the flow of illicit drugs to the homeland, thereby protecting Americans These enhanced counter-narcotics operations constitute an increase in Naval destroyers, combat ships, aircraft and helicopters, and Coast Guard cutters. Additional assets double capabilities in the region. whole of government efforts continue with interagency assets from Customs and Border Protection, DEA and others. 50% of interdictions last year involved partners. Key partners in this fight: Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Panama, as well as European partners France, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom - will provide capabilities.
Security Forces Assistance Brigade (SFAB) Company (advise and assist)Ģ2 nations provide intelligence and operations support as part of Joint Interagency Task Force – South (JIATF-South)
Resources:Ĭustoms and Border Protection maritime patrol aircraftĪir Force E-3 AWACS aircraft (ISR) and E-8 JSTARS aircraft (ISR) Location:Ĭaribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) began enhanced counternarcotics operations in the Western Hemisphere to disrupt the flow of drugs in support of Presidential national security objectives.
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