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US military receive newest spy plane
The U.S. Army has announced that the second Long Range Radar-Enhanced (LRR-E), the productionized version of the LRR prototype, was successfully delivered to the Project Director Sensors-Aerial Intelligence (PD SAI) Program Manager Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System (PM...
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I can confirm it is RIPPA. I hear it used all the time out of Barnes.
apparently at least part of SAM237's flight was practice. Spotted in Billings, Mt doing touch and goes:
Yes they filed Elmendorf - Billings - Andrews based on what I read.
US military receive newest spy plane
The U.S. Army has announced that the second Long Range Radar-Enhanced (LRR-E), the productionized version of the LRR prototype, was successfully delivered to the Project Director Sensors-Aerial Intelligence (PD SAI) Program Manager Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System (PM...
Did some research on these aircraft - seems Dynamic has quite a few of these aircraft and a few 737-500s as well. Besides everything else they have......
I counted seven DH8A (DH8-100 series), two DH8B (DH8-200 series) and one DH8C (DH8-300 series) aircraft (they probably have more but the FAA is not up to date yet).
On the 737-500 side I counted three registrations but based on the sequence they have registrations paid for additional 737-500s.
Interesting at 19:50 local was a bunch of chatter on 121.500 between airliners seeing something
to the South.. Someone said prob second stage of Space X launch. One said looks to be over Norfolk way.
One airline pilot said probably hypersonic and other comments LOL
BLUE-32 KC-135 #62-3578 off McGuire to Northeast. Maybe to bring back some F-15C's from LN.
At near 40k altitude near Maine assume crossing the Pond.
to the South.. Someone said prob second stage of Space X launch. One said looks to be over Norfolk way.
One airline pilot said probably hypersonic and other comments LOL
BLUE-32 KC-135 #62-3578 off McGuire to Northeast. Maybe to bring back some F-15C's from LN.
At near 40k altitude near Maine assume crossing the Pond.
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Interesting at 19:50 local was a bunch of chatter on 121.500 between airliners seeing something
to the South.. Someone said prob second stage of Space X launch. One said looks to be over Norfolk way.
One airline pilot said probably hypersonic and other comments LOL
BLUE-32 KC-135 #62-3578 off McGuire to Northeast. Maybe to bring back some F-15C's from LN.
The SpaceX launch occurred at 18:11 EST - but it could have been the second burn for the 2nd stage since the launch was over Cuba and southwest bound (for polar orbit). So technically they probably where watching as it was overhead moving southwest.
Interesting at 19:50 local was a bunch of chatter on 121.500 between airliners seeing something
to the South.. Someone said prob second stage of Space X launch. One said looks to be over Norfolk way.
One airline pilot said probably hypersonic and other comments LOL
121.5 came alive here in Kentucky around 7:50 pm/0050Z as well. Timing sounds right (~ 90 minutes after launch) for a low earth orbit first pass.
My earlier sea story here:
Over the years I've also seen an Indian missile launch at night over the Bay of Bengal with many stagings. And a couple of launches over the North Pacific routes eastbound in the pre-dawn zodiacal light. I'm sure a Cobra Ball RC-135 was looking over my shoulder somewhere in the darkness on the NOPAC sightings.
From the Seesat-L visual satellite observer's forum:
Also:
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mdmonitor
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Guys,
Posted on another list:
Probable activity beginning Tuesday evening (Feb 1 local/Feb 2 Zulu) into Wednesday morning.
East window: 02/0001 - 02/1200
West window: 01/2300 - 02/1400
The guys who posted this likes to keep track of upcoming activities like Stratcom exercises, Skymaster exercises, etc. He posts alot of HF-GCS traffic when these occur.
Posted on another list:
Probable activity beginning Tuesday evening (Feb 1 local/Feb 2 Zulu) into Wednesday morning.
East window: 02/0001 - 02/1200
West window: 01/2300 - 02/1400
The guys who posted this likes to keep track of upcoming activities like Stratcom exercises, Skymaster exercises, etc. He posts alot of HF-GCS traffic when these occur.
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VIP Movement Summary 31 Jan
SAM 148 (C-37 # 18-1947) MacDill AFB FL-ADW
SAM 280 (C-37 # 06-0500) St Louis MO-ADW
SAM 148 (C-37 # 18-1947) MacDill AFB FL-ADW
SAM 280 (C-37 # 06-0500) St Louis MO-ADW
Great audio.. yeah thats what heard.. I guess the setting sun yet dark here lit up that second stage at altitude pretty good.There is always the perfect pilot chiming in.. "Didnt you read your notams"? Funny reply on that comment..
Did someone mention that 121.500 is not very active? Good to see everyone was monitoring the frequency in the cockpit.
Last night there were 3 B-1s callsigns sounded like OXRAY (11-12-13), that joined up with 3 KC-135s callsigns HIFI (11-12-13) on AR20, 2 of the B-1s went Oceanic. OXRAY (?) and HIFI are new callsigns for me.
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AR20NE is showing active again today 1600 UTC - 1830 UTC.
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AR20NE is showing active again today 1600 UTC - 1830 UTC.
Some in UK were saying that a couple of B-1s were gonna particioate in some flybys scheduled over there..
Did someone mention that 121.500 is not very active? Good to see everyone was monitoring the frequency in the cockpit.
Thanks for that clip AirScan.
As you can see, the 'guard police' chime in with D'Artagnan's 'On Guard!' (he spelled it differently ) whenever some else transmits. And Delta is legendary on 121.5 for giving inadvertent passenger announcements along with pedantic advice to the lesser mortals on the frequency.Prior to the 9-11 attacks, domestic flights didn't monitor 121.5 that much in my experience. After 9-11 the prospect of being shot down (and having to fill out the paperwork even if you weren't) had most folks put 121.5 on the second VHF receiver. However, even now if there is chatter or interference it is so easy to deselect or turn down the volume and miss a call on guard.
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1209- TURAF 11 (Turkish AF KC-135R # 60-0326) inbound to McGuire.
The preliminary report is out on the MedEVAC crash from a few weeks ago in Delaware County PA
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