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2 Oct, 5 tweets, 4 min read
Kick back, this is an OSINT treat: ๐Ÿฟ

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #RCAF CC-144D Challenger 144620 (one of the new ones) departed #Ottawa #CYOW on 2021-09-26 with callsign #CFC3080, very likely carrying General Wayne Eyre, the acting Chief of the Defence Staff.

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#C2C1FB #CDS Image
When the CDS visited #CFBBagotville his plane's callsign was #CFC3040.

After a brief stop in Prestwick ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ, they flew to Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base in Constanta ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ด, and used the same callsign the whole trip. Image
On 2021-09-28 General Wayne Eyre, the acting Canadian Chief of the Defence Staff, likely had meetings in Bucharest. ImageImage
On 2021-09-29 they made the 11hr flight home, via Reykjavรญk ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ธ. Image

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Steffan Watkins ๐Ÿ“กโœˆ๏ธ Profile picture
4 Oct
How many media organisations, alleged-journalists, and pundits, will display their ignorance by not looking up what an Air Defence Identification Zone #ADIZ is, and call it #Taiwan's airspace, which it is not.

Let's keep a running tab; I've dragged many of them previously.
In no particular order:

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You can play along at home:

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Steffan Watkins ๐Ÿ“กโœˆ๏ธ Profile picture
2 Oct
Reminder: a check mark has nothing to do with accuracy or integrity, and @eha_news is clearly not a trustworthy source. They published misinformation at best, or disinformation they were not aware of, and issued no corrections or retractions when corrected. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

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It is rare for @dwnews to fall for this, but they fell for it too. ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ

The narrative wasn't corrected at the onset it's now spread like wildfire. Finding the same lie across multiple checkmarked accounts does not make it true. Parroting a lie doesn't absolve journalists from reporting the truth, and this isn't it. ๐Ÿ‘‡

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Steffan Watkins ๐Ÿ“กโœˆ๏ธ Profile picture
28 Sep
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Can we confirm this TASS story using only publicly available flight data of a #USAF reconnaissance plane's mission earlier today?

Yes we can, and at the same time we deflate their spin.

This is a great example PAOs can use re the benefits of #OSINT.
tass.com/defense/1343469
Not only can we identify the plane's departure and arrival time from Crete, that was #USAF RC-135W Rivet Joint 62-4126 #AE1253 using callsign #ZEUS21.

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We also see very clearly the sensor being used is on the right hand side of the plane; they conduct the pass at ~370kn, turn around as fast as they can (~450kn+), and make another pass, three times. Their departure wasn't forced, they were done; they left at ~420kn; not that fast
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Steffan Watkins ๐Ÿ“กโœˆ๏ธ Profile picture
23 Sep
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ The #RCAF #14WingGreenwood newsletter "The Aurora" is really well done; newsletters feel pre-digital to me, but I'm not anti-newsletter. I can't help but read these articles about #413SQN #SAR and know they'd make fantastic Twitter content.

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If #14WingGreenwood was interested in publicising the tempo of their SAR operations w/ @hfxjrcc they could investigate transmitting ADS-B from their CH-149, CC-130H, and other aircraft. Mode-S alone doesn't transmit lat/lon, and reduces public visibility of their operations.
Yes, I'd love them to start using ADS-B with the CP-140M Block 4 fleet too, but I don't think they're going to improve the visibility of our sub-hunters, which are extremely busy on ops and exercises, and hardly ever mentioned in the news.
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Steffan Watkins ๐Ÿ“กโœˆ๏ธ Profile picture
23 Sep
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ I know you want to know more about how the sausage is made, so look carefully at this image from 2021-09-22, yesterday, when RCAF CC-130J 130610 was flying some training flights over Ontario, and see what information you can extract.

I'll show you:
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The network of transponder receivers collects the data the plane is transmitting with an omnidirectional antenna. Any plane using ADS-B, like that one, only needs to be "heard" by one ground station and it's coordinates (from their transponder) relayed to #ADSBexchange.
The green circles show where receivers (which the operators of have opted to make their location public, like I have) are feeding the ADSBexchange network from.
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Steffan Watkins ๐Ÿ“กโœˆ๏ธ Profile picture
22 Sep
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ด Someone with better intel on Canadian-Colombian military relations might recognize what these flights are indicative of; I don't. Before I lose track of which Royal Canadian Air Force CC-130J transports flew to #Colombia in September for an exercise(?), lets document them.
First, remember that the RCAF CC-130H fleet stay at home like red headed step children; they do SAR and other domestic taskings. We just need to watch where the CC-130J fleet has been internationally.

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #RCAF CC-130J Fleet:
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Secondly, remember that a callsign stays the same for an entire mission; same callsign, same mission. Dropping off/picking up the same people, returning from dropping things off, or brining things back; it would all be one callsign.

Sequential call-signs are usually related too.
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