Saturday's joint forcible entry exercise will be massive -- SEVERAL DOZEN C-17s, a few less C-130s, plus all the ISR & Strike manned & unmanned platforms, Escort, CSAR, C2, & SOF aircraft.
Alas, vul period starts around dusk so not a lot of photo ops, but some great non-secure voice monitoring between 30-88, 118-144/148-151/225-400MHz & some stuff on the Nellis & NTTR LMR systems Saturday night into Sunday morning. Obviously there's a lot of Link-16 & other variants used for voice & data, some secure KY-57 traffic & some HAVE QUICK channels too, and SATCOM-based Military Interent Relay - Chat ("MIRC") keyboard to keyboard chat groups for some of the C2 & ISR aircraft + ground stations. While it's doubtful it'll actually be used, there's a discrete HF/SSB channel that the ground C2 facility at Nellis will monitor.
If you've been listening to the right freqs for WSINT exercises over the past several days, you've heard plenty of non-secure traffic from these airframe types:
B-1, B-52, maybe B-2s, AC-130, EC-130, MC-130, HC-130, HH-60, MH-47, U-28, MQ-9, RQ-170 (!!), RQ-4, E-2C, E-3, E-8C, RC-135, KC-135, KC-10, A-4, A-10, F-15, F-16, EA-18, F-22, F-35 & Saturday's THUGs & FELONs will be C-130E/Hs & C-17As.
Amazing!
