mikel97 wrote: » Its N2731G (prob CIA) yes Shannon
Yes indeed. That placement of the E-3 Sentry appears to have been strategic as there are almost continuous flights into Rzeszow civilian airport of C-17 Globemasters and other heavy-lifts from Germany, Turkey and the UK. Rzeszow is only 99.7km to the Ukranian border, & 726km to Kiev. Even at the moment there is a German AIRBUS A-400M which stopped off in Slovenia (also an NATO member) lining up to land at Rzeszow.
Good catch with the Aeroflot to Paris.
Unfortunately, the AN225 was completely destroyed in an attack. Sad to see the end of an era and goodbye to the largest aircraft.
The massive Ukrainian aircraft AN-225 burned out.one of a kind I believe
🇪🇺⚡EU airspace will be closed both for passenger flights from Russia and for private jets - the head of the European Commission
NATO's AWACS drawing circles and 8's near Ukrainian border:
Suddenly appeared that Aeroflot's flight to Paris cannot really get there:
First thing that came to my mind was old Pink Floyd song "Nobody's Home":
I've got a strong urge to fly. But I've got nowhere to fly to (Fly to... fly to... fly to...)
Try that flight without a reclining seat and bright-yellow head-rests. You'd need sedation on arrival at your 'far from destination' airport.
Interesting one coming out of France now.
It's an older lady - an ATLA BREGUET Atlantic which departed from the naval Base Aeronauticque in Lorient and looks to be heading for a Mediterranean deployment. It's a 1965 sting-tail reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare platform with a big glass viewing window in the nose-cone.
Ryanair doing transatlantic again
There is currently a USAF UH-60 callsign DUKE48 north of LVIV routing east like its coming out of Ukrainian airspace. Interesting to know what that was at.
Correction, it's flying just inside the border of Poland
I can’t even find the plane I was tracking on playback now.
I was tracking a Russian military aircraft earlier which looked like it was heading to the Belarus capital but reports(on twitter) are coming in that one was shot down within the hour around Kyiv. I wonder if it was the same one?
Yes, I'd guess they are securing assets out of Russian reach. Those for are two ANTONOV An-26's and two ANTONOV An-32 Sutlej (water bombers).
Their MODE-S transponders appeared to be hidden until they were over the Polish border. Godspeed to them.
4 ukranian aircraft transitting through Poland at the moment
Those are typically "Boeing KC-135T Stratotanker", "McDonnell Douglas KC-10A Extender" or "AIRBUS A-330-200" all air-refueling platforms. There are 5 in flight over Poland and Romania at the moment. A favourite refueling location at this time is 100km south-east of Poznan, Poland.
Here's a Eurofighter picking up a bit of juice and two refueling platforms in the same refueling zone just now.
The Eurofighter flew from RAF Coningsby while the A-330-200 came from RAF Brize Norton. Obviously NATO don't locally source their resources. No carbon-taxes in NATO!
FR had a waiting room in operation due to excessive traffic-(suspect Mr Putin the cause!) . They say they have now increased server capacity.
That’s an Omni Air International 777 N819AX. Used for US military personnel movements under the CMB callsign
Anyone get eyes on this fella? He left Shannon this morning, heard him over the house and looked it up. Went up to Bodo Airport which is also an airbase in Norway so I'm assuming military ops.
The us have quiet a few aircraft floating around including this
anyone know what kind of aircraft flew over Ennis, south of Shannon airport, 30 mins ago? Sounded like a flying roadsweeper lol
It's seriously slow, and there's a Cloudflare DDOS protection page coming up before you even get in. It's still operating but barely.
Is flight trader website gone down again ?
It would be interesting to start describing some of the aerial reconnaissance over Eastern Europe at present. It's all public domain stuff - if NATO/the US wanted to hide these things, they would.
This is a Gulfsteam 4 which you'll find performing loops off the coast of Sweden. By the way it loiters, I presume it has submarine-detection capabilities - hence it's position off Kaliningrad for the last number of days.
This is another small aircraft which must have been fitted with a radar. You'll see these in pairs over Lithuania, always flying in an open V shape, typically with a short leg and a longer leg. I presume that the objective under scrutiny is located between the legs of the V, possibly generating a two-dimensional side scan of the terrain and movement within.
This is a common-or-garden Saab 340 in mil spec - as used by FlyBe - which has been fitted with a side-scanning radome called an Eireye. It appears to dash in straight lines over water from land-mass to land-mass, often seen changing direction over islands - but I suppose that all depends on the deployment at the time.
Here's the "Boeing RC-135W Rivet Joint" surveillance airframe which is the replacement to the Nimrod in the UK. It's a distinctive-looking construction as it packs a horizontally orientated radome along the body just forward of the wings as well as other radomes elsewhere. This is real "theatre of war" stuff with it's monitoring capabilities as well as it's ability to seat up to 30 people within. It has advanced capabilities in monitoring troop/vehicle movements and can relay multiple data-sources back to HQ.
This Boeing S-3 Sentry are the main eyes above Europe. Commonly seen patrolling in loops over the North Sea, UK, France, Spain Germany and Italy. Wikipedia best describes this aircraft as follows: "the E-3 monitors an assigned area of the battlefield and provides information for commanders of air operations to gain and maintain control of the battle; while as an air defense asset, E-3s can detect, identify, and track airborne enemy forces far from the boundaries of the U.S. or NATO countries and can direct interceptor aircraft to these targets. In support of air-to-ground operations, the E-3 can provide direct information needed for interdiction, reconnaissance, airlift, and close-air support for friendly ground forces"
Another aircraft to look out for is the older P3 Orion with it's sting-tail which you'll commonly see over North-Central Europe scanning for subs.
Any one with further insights or interests?
The site struggling this morning has gone down.
Edit. back up now
FORTE11 heading home for fuel :-) FORTE12 taking over
They’re based out of NAS Sigonella on the island of Sicily
Possibly.you could check out the marine traffic and track the two of them back too there start locations
Or an Aircraft carrier in the Med ?
A joint mission out of Italy by the looks of it.
Ah yes, see him now, FORTE12, It will probably take over from FORTE11
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