Col. Gail Halvorsen, the "Berlin Candy Bomber," greets children at a barbed wire fence at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, 1948.Gail Halvorsen, in 1948, demonstrates how he delivered the candy 'bombs'Children look on as a plane flies overhead. In 1948, the U.S. reportedly delivered some 13,000 tons of cargo and took off more than 89,000 times, totaling more than 600,000 hours of flight.Col. Gail Halvorsen, the "Berlin Candy Bomber" demonstrates to two children how the candy parachutes work.
The service is exploring a range of leads for increasing launch access — including international partnerships and newer modalities like sea-based launch.
A constellation of interceptors meant to counter low- and high-end threats would require a much more robust architecture than past estimates have assumed.
