5-plane formation just after noon over Seattle today.
May have been F/A-18s or F-15s as the best images I have show what look like two engines and twin tails.
By coincidence, perhaps, there were a trio of F/A-18Fs from VF-154 "Knights" at KBFI last night. Tails 102, 103 & 105. NH tail code denotes ties to Carrier Air Wing 11, which is Teddy Roosevelt's.
There was also an AFSOC 🇺🇸 C-146A Wolfhound at KBFI last night - 12-3040 #AE68BA
AFSOC 🇺🇸 C-146A Wolfhound 12-3040 #AE68BA is currently returning from Elmendorf after Red Flag 22-2 wrapped up.
Since it sounds like a bunch of sources are now saying they were F-15Es (and given no one heard them because they were so high up, I believe them), I started looking for F-15E bases in the US and it so happens an Eielson AFB to Nellis AFB route would take them right over Seattle!
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USS Harry S. Truman's current location as derived by the spot of an E-2D Advanced Hawkeye taking off from her deck and making racetracks east of the carrier.
USS Kearsarge LHD-3 was last transmitting AIS (seen on @MarineTraffic) in the Celtic Sea/Bay of Biscay area about 115 miles west of Brest, France at 0348 UTC June 24, 2022.
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Part 3. MiG-31K & Kinzhal.
Paired with a MiG-31K, the Kh-47M2 "Khinzhal" (Russian: Х-47М2 Кинжал; NATO: "Killjoy") is said in Russian media TASS July 18, 2018 to have a range of 2000 km.
There is just so much to break down about this video of a 🇺🇦 Ukrainian Navy attack with a pair of AShMs on 🇷🇺 Project 22870 rescue tug Vasiliy Bekh (SB-739).
Background: Vasiliy Bekh (SB-739) was a 57-meter long seagoing tug of the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet. On May 11, Vasiliy Bekh or a vessel very similar in shape/size was spotted resupplying Snake Island with a SAM system encumbered on its aft deck. 2/7
The attack: at 0354 local time (0054Z) 17 June 2022, Vasiliy Bekh was observed by a Ukrainian Navy TB2 at a range of 75 km at a bearing of 157° at position 45.213°, 30.614°.
The TB2 was observing & not a factor in guiding; its camera is observed at a very shallow angle.
*At least five shot down: RF-91958, RF-91961, RF-91969, RF-93026 & RF-93027.
If RF-91957 does not return to action, it would be the sixth Su-25 from 18th Shturmovik Aviation Regiment out of the fight.
Also, realized RF-90965 was from 960 ShAP, so this is the 2nd documented Su-25 of the war having to RTB with major damage, but the first recorded from this regiment. Apologies.
The facility the Russian vehicles were targeted at is the PJSC Polohy Sunflower Oil extraction plant. Russia has been accused of stealing sunflower oil from the facility since at least May 7th.
Sunflower seeds are harvested in September & October.
Google Earth pass July 2020 shows nearly empty activity on the rails. However, 🇺🇦 Ukrainian Army video shows jam packed rail yard at the facility. Nearly all of these cars have been there since the start of the war.