Thread by @no_itsmyturn

Long time no see, baby!
#USAF 🇺🇸 RC-135W Rivet Joint #ELINT/#SIGINT/#COMINT over #Iraq 🇮🇶
62-4139 | AE01D0 | #PYTHN56

OKBK - #Kuwait - 2151Z
Comms with #USAF 🇺🇸 KC-135R #Tanker @ 2151Z:
- “Shell30, confirm you’d like to enter iraqi airspace, confirm.”
+ “Affirm sir, Iraqi airspace first, and then RTBing to OTBH [Al Udeid Air Base, #Qatar]

#Iraq 🇮🇶

#USAF 🇺🇸 #MOJO86 (KC-10A #Tanker) enters #Iraq 🇮🇶
Comms with OKBK @ 2201Z:
“MOJO86 contact #Baghdad 123.0”
“123.0 for MOJO86”
🔊🔽

#USAF RC-135W Rivet Joint #ELINT/#SIGINT/#COMINT PYTHN56 comms with #OKBK #Kuwait 🇰🇼 before entering #Iraq 🇮🇶 @ 2203Z
“PYTHN56, contact #Baghdad 123.0”
“123.0 PYTHN56, so long”

🔊🔽

Also SHELL30 (KC-135R #Tanker)

Oooof Iraqi skies 👀
6x #USAF 🇺🇸 #Tanker|s over #Iraq 🇮🇶 pinging in range of Ar Ramadi receiver.
4x KC-135R and 2x KC-10A
Also a #BACN (Battlefield Airborne Communications Node) bird is up.

[57-1469
63-8036
58-0085
59-1450
86-0027
85-0029]
+
11-9355

#USAF 🇺🇸 F-16 Fighting Falcon pinging over central #Iraq 🇮🇶

It's raining tankers in #Iraq 🇮🇶 🤷‍♂️
A COMINT bird is also up

#USAF 🇺🇸 CROME97 outbound central #Iraq 🇮🇶 (Possibly BGW)