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3 Apr, 12 tweets, 13 min read
🇺🇸 Unknown aircraft using an identifier in the American-allocated ICAO range over #Iraq 🇮🇶 tonight; no idea what it is, all info is blank (incl alt, squawk, etc) and I can't find any historical information about it (other than it was last seen 2020-01-06 & 2020-01-17) #AAD30F 🤔
Given the constant buzz of American ISR assets over Iraq, it's probably just one more, but the rest of them are pretty loud and proud about their identity. Already L3, Textron, and other contractors can be noticed operating over Iraq all night long, every night.
Frequent fliers:

🇺🇸✈️ MQ-1C Gray Eagle
#AE5C0D
#AE5C13
#AE60B7

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🇺🇸✈️ Bombardier E-11A BACN
11-9001 #AE4D27
12-9506 #AE54B4

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🇺🇸✈️ MC-12W Liberty09-0625 #AE2F59

09-0625 #AE2F59
09-0640 #AE2F5F
09-0641 #AE2F60
09-0661 #AE2F6C
09-0684 #AE2F71

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Other King Air-based ISR platforms are above Iraq, but who's flying them is a little vague; some may be DoD
Last known N numbers:
#N166BA #A10812
#N358ER #A402F9
#N6147U #A800FA
#N665ML #A8C7EA
#N74226 #A9FCB5
#N789LL #AAB2FA
#N80BZ #AADFB5
#N914JA #ACA650
thedrive.com/the-war-zone/1…
🇺🇸✈️ If you're really lucky, you might get a glimpse of the United States Army RO-6A which has been seen recently.

16-00276 #AE5F19

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🇺🇸✈️ Libya, Iraq; I don't think it makes much difference to the mission.

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🇺🇸✈️ If Electronic Warfare is your thing, you can find at least a couple Lockheed EC-130H Compass Call aircraft in the skies above Iraq.

73-1590 #AE1275
73-1584 #AE127D

thedrive.com/the-war-zone/1…
Did you ask why they don't just change their Mode-S transponder to broadcast some bogus number in defiance of international civilian aviation regulations?
Indeed, some of them do! 👇

#000017 🇺🇸 Weasel?
#010101 ?
#208FFF 🇹🇷 UAV?
#29CBB8 🇺🇸 ?
#B27FFF 🇺🇸 Weasel?
#FFF000 🇺🇸 UAV?
🇮🇶 All we need is more #ADSBexchange receivers deployed in #Iraq to see *all of those* aircraft mentioned above, and more!
Yes, they all broadcast #ModeS which allows us to triangulate their transponders
Like DIY DF!
How cool is that?!
#OSINT #SIGINT #MLAT
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Big thanks (in no order) to @vcdgf555 @no_itsmyturn @ameliairheart @FranticGoat @GDarkconrad @Gerjon_ for the contributions they did, and didn't, know about. 😂

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6 Apr
Let's review what a fact is, what a Top Secret-classified source might be, what a Secret-classified intelligence report is, what misinformation is, and what disinformation is.
Your car is parked at home. It's location is a fact. You put it there. You may even see it out your windows, it is indisputably true, it is there, it is a fact, there is no tricks, no smoke or mirrors. It's just a #fact.
There is an American spy satellite (ha, many) circling the globe, it's capabilities are Top Secret, and the imagery it takes is Top Secret.

Using imagery from that satellite, a gov't analyst writes a Secret report that states your car is in your driveway, per Top Secret intel.
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🇨🇦🇷🇺🇺🇦 With all the chatter about RUSSIA! / UKRAINE! it's hard to keep facts straight, so I'm keeping an eye out for *unusual* aircraft movements that I can identify, so I can try to make a meaningful, reliable contribution, without using someone else's bouncy dash-cam footage.
What was yesterday?
Easter Sunday.
Do you know who works in the Canadian federal govt on a holiday?
Not many people, but the Canadian Forces are still flying; that's pretty normal, they don't take many breaks.

However, an RCAF CC-144 was flying; THAT'S not normal for a holiday.
🇨🇦 Royal Canadian Air Force CC-144D Challenger 144620 flew from Ottawa to #CFBBagotville to #RAFLuton on Friday 2021-04-02.

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5 Apr
🇺🇸 Because of charlatans we have to waste our time reminding the people who are just uninformed that yes, there are US Navy and USAF command and control planes that fly every day over their heads.
"Doomsday planes" are not "a sign".
Let's start with the E-4B Nightwatch.

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I've already published your secret decoder ring, you just need to check in on it, daily, to see it's always the same poop. Since some people didn't get the memo, let me spoon feed it to them, right down their throat.

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5 Apr
Learn to spot #agitprop ON Twitter, and REPORT IT until they're gone. 👇
Yup, @GuidoFawkes1976 is another charlatan spreading the #QAnon-plane nonsense alleging that the E-4 is "a sign", because they prey on the uninformed. The E-4 flies (almost) every day, he's lying to people to take advantage of them.
Get rid of this trash.

Do we have one of these softheaded charlatans go off about a "Doomsday planes" once every few months?

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🇬🇧 Considering the sources who suggested the Russians or Syrians were jamming #RAF A400 GPS, it probably shouldn't have been published; but the British press have a lot of tabloid clickbait trash, so here we are. There is no sign this is any different than the past several yrs.
🇬🇧 Sowing this sort of truism would be the sort of thing a propaganda campaign would do, and coincidentally members of the British military have bragged about their capacity, and willingness, to manipulate the press when it suits their narrative before.
I'm not sure this story comes from "journalism". No dates, times, specific flights, or specific planes were identified, and none of the info shows sign of being fact-checked with any external sources. There are open sources which can verify the RAF narrative, but nobody bothered.
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🇬🇧 Royal Air Force EF-2000 Typhoon FGR4 #ZK353 returned to #RAF Akrotiri after conducting five hours of operations over Iraq(?) 2021-03-18.
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