It's only a matter of time before the CP-140 Aurora deployments to Keflavik, that coincide with Russian Navy movements through the GIUK gap, get traction in the press.
They pretend it's not happening. We see them. π€¦ββοΈ
They pretended the press couldn't see it happening and wouldn't talk about it like it was some secret operation. Au contraire, it was so visible I live-tweeted it.
They can take out a bad guy at 2km, but don't ask them to hide ISR operations. MAG Aerospace arriving on Tuesday and out on Saturday was not training, but they got the PM to lie for them in the HoC, which was impressive.
What about the withdrawal x2 CC-130J from #OpIMPACT Aug 2022?
They silently, but visibly, withdrew 2 of 4 overseas Hercs, then got the press to publish their praise of adding a third to their overseas deployments, which was a net reduction, but the press didn't print that.
Bravo
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Here's a way you may not have looked at the data #ADSBexchange gives you.
Planes using ADS-B transmit their precise location (lat/lon/alt/speed/etc) but planes using Mode-S need to be geolocated using multilateration (MLAT). like TRIangulation, but with 4 data points (Multi) π§΅
Here is an image (and link) representing *only* planes being geolocated using MLAT. Meaning, 4 or more #ADSBexchange receivers have them in line-of-sight (LOS); 10 of them.
Here is the same area, showing you what aircraft transmitting Mode-S are not being geolocated, meaning 4 #ADSBexchange receivers do not have these planes in LOS; 81 of them.
πΊπΈ People stop me on the street all the time and ask me, Stef, how can you tell where in the United States there are too few #ADSBexchange receivers to geolocate aircraft that aren't broadcasting their precise location data using multilateration (#MLAT)?
Great question!
Here's what you do:
filter by altitude, between 10,000-40,000 ft, that restricts the results to aircraft which are flying high enough that we should home four or more receivers are in line of sight, a requirement for #MLAT.
Then filter so you only see the Mode-S-transponder-transmitting aircraft
π¨π¦ #RCAF CC-177 Globemaster III (4/5, 80% β )
β£ 177701 flew from Trenton to Ottawa to Whitehorse on 2023-02-12 presumably related to the π
β£ 177704 seems to be out of comission at #CFBTrenton, it hasn't flown in over a month.
Let me understand this really well, πΊπΈπ¨π¦ #NORAD QRA fighters didn't shoot down the π¨π³ Chinese spy balloon in American, then Canadian, then American airspace? π
They flew right through the #ADIZ that the media get their bloomers in a bunch about when the Russians fly antiques through, and VIOLATED American and Canadian airspace, which the Russians never do, and the Chinese continue to do; did I get that right? What a bunch of bullsh!t.
I suspect the #USAF are flying their own spy drones over China on the regular, without the public's knowledge, in full view of the Chinese military, and they're terrified the Chinese will start shooting them out of the sky if they shoot down the balloon.
π¨π¦ Here's the distribution of the Canadian-registered Top Aces Alpha Jet fleet. I took the superset of everything registered to them, worked back to 2022-09-01, identified everything that's flown in that time, and flagged those that haven't flown in a month+.