In the Borscht Wars, 🇺🇦 always wins. Grammar fascist. Opinionated; if you don’t like my politics or views, don’t follow. Volunteered multiple times in 🇺🇦.
Aug 11, 2024 • 21 tweets • 5 min read
A long thread about the two F-16's ferried from Tuscon to Rzeszow, and what the rest of Ukraine's Antonov 124 fleet was doing at the end of last month. The airframe in this picture is #50801B, the "hero" aircraft. Full information about the fleet's activities in this 🧵👇 1/18
The Ukranian An-124 fleet was saved from the same fate as Mryia. Most were out of the country when the invasion started, and were squirreled away for a few months before returning to duty and helping with the war effort. The fleet is four strong. All dates are based on GMT 2/18
Mar 20, 2024 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
It was an active morning along the Romanian/Ukraine border and Black Sea. This 🧵discusses the activity on this mission. Of ads-b visible aircraft was an Artemis, two RC-135s, a P-8, three AAR, and a mystery French fighter in the Black Sea. Details 👇visualization. 1/6
A closer visualization of the activities around the Delta Danube and Romanian coastline. 2/6
AAR assets in the region:
A332 #3B756A/FAF4091, early departure from France
KC-135 #AE058B, early departure from Poland to track with JAKE17
UK A332 #43C6F3/RRR9954+KAYAK31
Feb 9, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Kaliningrad in the spotllight today!! Did not have the time to unpack NATO ISR into a timeline earlier. Apologies. Timeline/plots in this 🧵
BRIO-fencing. Both privately owned sister ISR platforms are leased by LASAI to the 🇺🇸. The newer BRIO66 departed Latvia 05:50 UTC, RTB 13:30 UTC, tasked with northern KGD and Baltic border. BRIO68 departed Constanta 09:20 UTC, RTB 15:55, along the eastern bloc border and N KGD
May 10, 2022 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
JSLINT "While I was sleeping" version. This will be a detailed thread based on the last 24-hour observable ISR traffic. Here is the master map, broken down in this thread. This is my punishment for actually getting sleep. #OSINT#flightpaths
Before I slept, HOMER21 and BRIO68 were traversing the southern border corridor. HOMER may have been diverted to Constanta around 06:00Z when a Typhoon (likely QFR) sortied into that area. Its ISR 'racetrack' is shortened. As BRIO was already on task, this is unusual.
May 9, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Doing this early today. Air traffic maps are within this thread. Update later tonight. @SP1AUTOINJECT@IntercityFC@OSINT88
ISR resources. Does not include Lithuanian YANK01, YANK02 (standard paths), BRIO68 (standard southern ISR corridor), the P3 AA33 ISR path, or the P8. Please refer to earlier posts for info. Ads-b reception gaps in SE Romania are primary cause of inaccurate maps.
May 9, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This yank is hoping to turn in early and be up as dawn breaks in Eastern Europe. Expecting a busy morning after a relatively quiet day in the air. Now, if my neighbors would cooperate... anyone got a spare Neptune? Todays maps in thread; all are last-leg only. #OSINT#flightpaths
AAR, last leg only. Note flights along the southern Moldova/Romanian border are in an area with limited open-source ads-b reception, so AAR paths in that region tend to obscure.