Today: article on ADSB tracking of mil aircraft

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Tracking U.S. Military Aircraft Online Could Become Much Harder

Senators want the military to use uniform practices to make online flight tracking, especially of senior officials' planes, more challenging.

www.thedrive.com

 

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What that article is wrong about is that they're not going from ADS-B to mode-S. ADS-B is mode-S, plus location. They're going to mode A/C which is what most fighters and bombers are already using. FBI went to mode A/C years ago after all the online publicity of their surveillance flights.