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These requirements, as has been noted, underwent few changes since
February 1957,
The few revisions, however, were noteworthy. For example,
only two Kavy effects aircraft, an FJ and an AMD, appeared on the February list, whereas three others, an FJ, and AD, and a P2V, had bem added
to the inventory by October,
Furthermore, two L-21 aircraft which were
included on the February list had been deleted by October and replaced by
three L-19's,
The requirement for three B-l\7 aircraft for the indirect bomb damage
assessment project was deleted in mid-February 1958 by Strategio Air Come
mand, The message*> which directed the deletion indicated that informa
tion obtained from low level indirect bomb damage assessme:c% projects in
Operation PLUMBBOB was sufficient to satisfy standing requirements, and
that a further expenditure of sorties with the sane equipment was not
warranted,
The elimination of this Operations and Training requirement,
thus, was announced in the first amendment to Operation Plan 1-58,
In all other areas the inventory was considered to be firm by the end
of October 1957 and remained stable, with only minor exceptions, throughout the planing phase of HARDTACK,
Communications and Air Operations Contrel,
Both the conmmnications
and the aircraft control procedures and systems to be employed on HARDTACK
were outlined in Operation Plan 1-58,
Major aspects of the concept of
commnnications operations were listed as follows:
1,
Headquarters Airways and Air Commmications Service was to
support the Air Task Croup mission with existing facilities augmented
by mobile equipment where necessary.
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