๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Some #RAF Logistics in/out of #Afghanistan, August 2021 edition.

2021-08-02 Z
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง RAF C-17 #ZZ177 #43C6B8 callsign #NAG09XT flew to Afghanistan, and out again, then back to the UK.

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2021-08-11 Z
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง RAF C-17 #ZZ174 #43C174 callsign #NAG23XT flew to Afghanistan.

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2021-08-12 Z
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง RAF C-17 ZZ174 43C174 callsign #NAG23XT flew out of Afghanistan,
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง RAF C-17 ZZ174 #43C174 callsign NAG24XT flew back in,
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง #RAF C-17 #ZZ174 43C174 callsign #NAG24XT flew back out.

(headed back to the UK 2021-08-13)

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2021-08-13 18:00Z
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง There is no evidence that #RAF transports are on the last leg to Afghanistan, or on the ground there, at this time.

Variations on the call sign #NAG09XT #NAG24XT #NAG23XT seem to be used for the Afghanistan missions. Is "XT" short for Extract? ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ
~600 troops is pretty close to 582, just sayin.

The MoD seems really far behind on this.

Well, it's nice that they identified the kind of aircraft to watch for. That takes some of the guesswork out of the search.

gov.uk/government/newโ€ฆ
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ซ They're sure cutting it close. The Brits may not make it to Afghanistan before The Battle for Kabul.
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Royal Air Force Airbus A330-243 (MRTT) "Voyager" #ZZ333 #43C6F6 flew from RAF Brize Norton to Oman to Bahrain 2021-08-13 / 2021-08-14
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#RRR2700 #RRR2701 ImageImage
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Royal Air Force Boeing C-17A Globemaster III #ZZ174 #43C174 returned to #RAFBrizeNorton from Dubai on 2021-08-13 as #RRR6411.

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#RAF Image
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Royal Air Force Airbus A330-243 (MRTT) Voyager #ZZ337 #43C6FA flew from #RAFBrizeNorton to Dubai on 2021-08-13 as #RRR2310.

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#RAF Image
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Additional #RAF aircraft are constantly flying back and forth to #RAFAkrotiri in #Cyprus ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡พ, but it's hard to differentiate any surge for #Afghanistan ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ซ from regular operations.

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15 Aug
"Contract Surveillance Plane Caught Flying in a Grid Pattern Over Mike Lindellโ€™s Cyber Symposium"

by Scott Boyd, NOQreport 2021-08-14

(Sponsored by MyPillow, JFC)

WAYBACK MACHINE LINK ๐Ÿ‘‡
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I desperately don't want to go over this paragraph by paragraph debunking it; the effort is high, payoff is low.

Because QAnon influencer and #disinfo-spreading rube #MonkeyWerx suckered @boydscott into publishing this, I guess I have publish something so others don't get taken.
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ The American-registered 1979 Cessna 310-R N314HB is owned by Marc Inc, a surveying company that takes multispectral aerial photography, and can be seen quite frequently seen doing just that, all over CONUS. Their operations over Sioux Falls on 2021-08-11 are not unusual at all ImageImageImageImage
Read 10 tweets
24 Jul
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ On July 22, 2021 United States Southern Command gave a clinic on how to identify a flight that is worthy of additional attention.
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ United States Air Force C-17A Globemaster III 95-0102 took off from Joint Base Charleston (or somewhere in that area) at ~21:30 Z using Mode-S, which is unusual; they use Mode-S when they don't want to be as noticeable, like over Iraq.
#AE07E5 #RCH233
Because they were using Mode-S, their location had to be geolocated using multilateration (MLAT) and only a few coordinates were seen from the ADSBexchange network.

๐Ÿ“Œ 21:37 Z 12,450 ft (32.747794, -79.603876)
Read 23 tweets
22 Jul
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #RCAF CC-130J Hercules 130604 #C2B549 has been operating in the Middle East supporting various missions for months, like #OpIMPACT, and today I noticed they seemed to change their interpretation of their SOP while overflying #Iraq ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ถ.

๐Ÿ“ธ 2019-07-12
jetphotos.com/photo/9407727
I've published what I put together before; this is an extension of that. ๐Ÿ‘‡


#C2B549 #CANUK46
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #RCAF CC-130J Hercules 130604 did not change their transponder from ADS-B to Mode-S when transiting Iraqi airspace, which is the norm for all RCAF flights over #Iraq, including their own previous flights, presumably for OPSEC reasons. #C2B549 ImageImageImageImage
Read 6 tweets
29 Jun
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ถ Let's look at the "layer cake" over #Iraq

( Someone who actually works in ATC will laugh at me, but I don't want to work for ATC ๐Ÿ˜‚ )
Above 35,000ft we have at least 7 airliners, all broadcasting ADS-B, as commercial air traffic does.

We also have one #USAF E-11A BACN 11-9355 #AE4DE1 c/s #BLKWF13 at 36,000ft broadcasting Mode-S; a military plane, in the middle of the civ air traffic.

jetphotos.com/photo/9179107
at 32,000ft we have a C-17 transiting over Iraq
#RCH850 #AE2FA4 08-8192

at 25,000ft we have a KC-135, that's probably the alt where they are refuelling fighters.
#AE064D58-0015

at 24,000ft we have #OpSHADER's Voyageur
#CBOW23 #43C6F5 #ZZ332
Read 9 tweets
29 Jun
- No RC-135s in the air over the Black Sea that I know of.
- There could be a U-2 (because there could always be a U-2, they show up seldomly when they're taking off / landing / in transit)
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ #USNavy Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Ross (MMSI:338822000|CS:NGWB), doing 13kn, is being tailed by another vessel labelled "U153" with an MMSI of 45678458 (invalid)
#USSRoss #DDG71 #6thFleet โš“

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๐Ÿ“ธ 2020-11-15
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7 Jun
It would be swell if @JohnMooneyST
influenced his editors to correct the headline at least. No #RuAF ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ aircraft were in Irish airspace at any time. That's misinformation at best, #disinformation at worst; they were in international airspace the whole time thetimes.co.uk/article/concerโ€ฆ
Journalists are regularly fed bad info by their trusted sources who want to mislead them and spin the story, so I can hardly blame @JohnMooneyST who did his due diligence. The Flight Information Region #FIR is the correct term, the international airspace controlled by Irish ATC.
Sovereign Irish airspace extends 12 Nautical Miles out to sea, the flight information region #FIR extends hundreds of miles out to sea. #NORAD is much more diligent in explaining that difference, as they do in the linked PDF below, from a few years back.

northcom.mil/Portals/28/Docโ€ฆ
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