Kaliningrad in the spotllight today!! Did not have the time to unpack NATO ISR into a timeline earlier. Apologies. Timeline/plots in this 🧵
BRIO-fencing. Both privately owned sister ISR platforms are leased by LASAI to the 🇺🇸. The newer BRIO66 departed Latvia 05:50 UTC, RTB 13:30 UTC, tasked with northern KGD and Baltic border. BRIO68 departed Constanta 09:20 UTC, RTB 15:55, along the eastern bloc border and N KGD
🇸🇪 AEW Saab 340 C604 departed Ronneby 11:15 UTC, assumed a defensive station between KGD and Sweden over the Baltic sea, returning to Malmen 15:15 UTC
JSTARS C3 🇺🇸 platform REDEYE6 departed Mildenhall 09:35 UTC, RTB 19:15. After crossing the Suwalki gap, it took a reciprocal heading to settle into two orbits on the southgern KGD border.
Two Rivet Joint RC-135, 🇺🇸 JAKE11 and 🇬🇧 RAF RRR7208, and the 🇮🇹 G5 AEW/SIGINT IAM1945 all departed within 90 minutes of each other.
RRR7208 departed Crete 10:10 UTC, RTB 18:55 UTC, tasked to S. KGD and Belarus. IAM1945 departed Rome 10:20 UTC, changed c/s to PERSE41 in NATO command took station south of REDEYE, RTB 17:15. JAKE11 departed Mildenhall 11:35 UTC, RTB 18:44 UTC, hammering KGD from the west.
An unknown 🇩🇪 airframe, c/s HUNTER, was spotted at 13:15 UTC over the Baltic just west of KGD. On station at 200-350 kts, 6775 feet, it patrolled until 16:00 before returning to Germany at 17:25 UTC.
No conjecture or analysis. Simply unwrapping the data.
@FouthTimeLucky -- its always been KGD
I realized this looks a little bit like Burning Man.
Thanks to @IntercityFC for some potential insight as to the hubbub:
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