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Very interesting; if I'm not mistaken the #AusAirForce changed their emissions posture vis-a-vis their transponder between their 2020 and 2021 #OpARGOS missions. In 2020, either they didn't fly, or they obfuscated their patrols sufficiently to avoid open source scrutiny.
Before I explain to the #AusAirForce 🇦🇺 comms ppl, please appreciate that their P-8A Poseidon fleet broadcasts its own location to anyone who will listen, using ADS-B. That signal will geolocate them from orbit. On patrol, their locations are the least secret thing over the SCS.
This tweet, that has all the words in it you'd need to find it, gives you the tail numbers and ICAO Mode-S hexes of the whole #AusAirForce 🇦🇺 P-8A Poseidon fleet. You can follow them pretty much any day with the link that's included in the quoted tweet.
On 2023-02-09 #AusAirForce 🇦🇺 P-8A Poseidon A47-011 arrived at #KadenaAB 🇺🇸 on #Okinawa 🇯🇵as call sign #ASY150.
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🇦🇺 Assessment of Royal Australian Air Force aircraft readiness (some of them anyway), extrapolating from their Mode-S transponder RF emissions, compiled 2022-07-03.
Aircraft that haven't flown in over a month are believed to be (temporarily?) out of service. #RAAF
Aircraft that haven't flown in over a month are believed to be (temporarily?) out of service. #RAAF
🇨🇦 I'm using the same methodology as the #RCAF assessments I've published.
In comparison, please notice it's completely normal to have some (small) number of aircraft out of the pool for maintenance, almost all the time, for almost all aircraft.
In comparison, please notice it's completely normal to have some (small) number of aircraft out of the pool for maintenance, almost all the time, for almost all aircraft.
Some of the identified aircraft haven't yet been delivered to the RAAF, so they're not actually *out* of service, they haven't yet come *into* service - I didn't want to make a new category, so I just recycled "out of service". Apologies for any confusion.
Jan 1943: FD Roosevelt and Churchill, at the Casablanca Conference, resolved to retaliate against Japan on multiple fronts in the Pacific, starting in New Guinea.
One result was the April 1944 landing of 22,500 troops at Aitape (ai-ta-pee), on New Guinea’s north coast.
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One result was the April 1944 landing of 22,500 troops at Aitape (ai-ta-pee), on New Guinea’s north coast.
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The fight for New Guinea’s airfields was part of a threefold effort to attack the Japanese Empire:
1) to divert attention to the Southwest Pacific in time for USA to strike in the north;
2) to eliminate the Japanese SW Pacific Area HQ at Rabaul;
3) to retake the Philippines.
The fight for New Guinea’s airfields was part of a threefold effort to attack the Japanese Empire:
1) to divert attention to the Southwest Pacific in time for USA to strike in the north;
2) to eliminate the Japanese SW Pacific Area HQ at Rabaul;
3) to retake the Philippines.
April 21 1944:
The Greatest Generation.
Approaching Aitape, New Guinea.
Australian Air Force ground crews of Mobile Works, Design and Survey & Signals Units receive last-minute instructions on the hot deck of an LST (Landing Ship Tank).
They were to rebuild the enemy airfields.⤵️
The Greatest Generation.
Approaching Aitape, New Guinea.
Australian Air Force ground crews of Mobile Works, Design and Survey & Signals Units receive last-minute instructions on the hot deck of an LST (Landing Ship Tank).
They were to rebuild the enemy airfields.⤵️
🇷🇺🔥🇺🇦 #Rusia vs #Ucrania (día 44) – Comenzamos el #hilo 🧵 diario sobre la #GuerraEnUcrania con estas imágenes de los primeros 4 (de 20) blindados Bushmaster australianos llegados a Ucrania a bordo de un Boeing C-17A Globemaster III de la #RAAF.
🙏 #RETWEEETME
🙏 #RETWEEETME
🇷🇺🔥🇺🇦 #Rusia vs #Ucrania (día 44) – Seguimos con este vídeo de los "kadyrovitas" en #Mariupol, haciendo un repaso de parte del material capturado a los ucranianos, incluyendo chalecos, mochilas, armas e incluso medallas.
🇷🇺🔥🇺🇦 #Rusia vs #Ucrania (día 44) – Desde el principio de la #GuerraEnUcrania, los #EEUU habrían suministrado a Ucrania lo siguiente:
🟥 Algún detalle no cuadra, pues en el último paquete de ayuda se aprobó el envío de un centenar y no de cientos de drones #Switchblade.
🟥 Algún detalle no cuadra, pues en el último paquete de ayuda se aprobó el envío de un centenar y no de cientos de drones #Switchblade.
Dit jaar broedden voor het eerst raven in de Groninger akkers. Dat verhaal begint feitelijk al in 2005: toen plaatste ik samen met Hans Hut een kunstnest voor slechtvalken in het mastlichaam, omdat broedpogingen van valken vaak mislukten waar ze in een kraaiennest broedden.(1/6)
Juist in dit kunstnest uit 2005 wist een paartje raven dit jaar 3 jongen groot te brengen. We zagen ze op t nest in mei tijdens ons veldwerk. 2 vlogen uit, de 3de raakte verstrikt in rommel die je vaak in nesten van kraaiachtigen aantreft. Dit jong ontdekten we bij toeval.
De uitgevlogen raaf bleek een kluwen van draad aan een poot/nagel te hebben en heeft waarschijnlijk een tijdje vast gezeten op het nest. Terwijl zijn ouders en beide nestgenoten verdwenen, bleef deze vogel verstrikt op het nest achter.(3/6)
