Zoom to Primorsk oil export port (blue polygon) and the most likely point (yellow).
This illustrates the area used for analysis and each red dot is one of the 10'954 aircraft messages used.
I filter for only the first message per 3 hour period per aircraft individual, to avoid having chatty aircraft get to much weight. The west hot zone is an artefact.
Next up I will quantify how this new reality has affected aviation over Finland. It is drastic increases. Stay tuned!
Many thanks to @live_airplanes for data and @PajalaJussi for intersection analysis code.
Disclaimer: this method has an unknown precision. I am confident on country, but dont believe it is precise enough to pinpoint exact position of the responsible electronic warfare machine.
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* It is unusual to not see daily sanctioned tanker arrive to Baltic Sea, usually a few each day.
But, the last 4 days lull ismight be explained by weather: Atlantic storms, low temperature and an increasingly frozen Gulf of Finland.
The ice is growing thicc around Russia's Baltic oil terminals.
Ice data outlets list a bunch of ice-breakers in service, but other sources have stated Russia lack capacity to keep the ice-sensitive rust-bucket tankers in play.
ASTROL 1 is a largely flat cargo ship with hatches that likely would serve well as drone pads.
She is a similar model to SCANLARK, recently apprehended by German authorities on drone suspicions and to PORT OLYA 4, drone import ship on Iran trade. Sunk by Ukraine.