{"id":119209,"date":"2020-11-24T18:12:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T15:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/trump-administration-to-reportedly-dispose-of-observation-planes\/"},"modified":"2020-11-24T18:12:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T15:12:08","slug":"trump-administration-to-reportedly-dispose-of-observation-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/trump-administration-to-reportedly-dispose-of-observation-planes\/","title":{"rendered":"#Trump administration to reportedly dispose of observation planes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n The Trump administration is preparing to get rid of Air Force planes used for surveillance after exiting the Open Skies treaty with Russia, complicating President-elect Joe Biden options if he seeks to rejoin the accord, according to a report.<\/p>\n

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday announced the withdrawal from the decades-old treaty that allowed nations to conduct unarmed surveillance flights over each other\u2019s territories.<\/p>\n

Now the Trump administration is moving to jettison the specially equipped OC-135B planes used in the Open Skies flights, the Wall Street Journal reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The planes have been designated as \u201cexcess defense articles,\u201d meaning they can be given or sold at steep discounts to allies, the report said, citing a senior US official.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve started liquidating the equipment,\u201d the official said. \u201cOther countries can come purchase or just take the airframes. They are really old and cost-prohibitive for us to maintain. We don\u2019t have a use for them anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

Older cameras used on the aircraft are expected to be given to allies, and new digital cameras the Pentagon planned to install on the planes will be sent to other Air Force units.<\/p>\n

Then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced in July that a program to buy new planes to replace the OC-135Bs was canceled, so Biden won\u2019t have the option of replacing the flights with modern planes.<\/p>\n

The former vice president was critical of the Trump administration\u2019s plan to exit the pact but hasn\u2019t said whether he will re-enter the treaty.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI supported the Open Skies Treaty as a senator, because I understand that the United States and our allies would benefit from being able to observe\u2014on short notice\u2014what Russia and other countries in Europe were doing with their forces,\u201d Biden said in a statement in May after the Trump administration announced it would begin a six month review of the treaty.<\/p>\n

The report said scrapp<\/a>ing the aircraft wasn\u2019t intended to hamstring the Biden administration but simply to get rid of planes and equipment the US no longer needs.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Trump administration to reportedly dispose of observation planes” The Trump administration is preparing to get rid of Air Force planes used for surveillance after exiting the Open Skies treaty with Russia, complicating President-elect Joe Biden options if he seeks to rejoin the accord, according to a report. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday announced…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/open-skies-treaty-3.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[81226,80942,4941,991,4975,81180],"class_list":["post-119209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-11-24-20","tag-air-force","tag-donald-trump","tag-joe-biden","tag-russia","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}