6:21 p.m. CT: An RC-135 -- Rivet Joint -- has just departed Souda Bay on the north side of Crete (Greece) headed north, obviously to Ukraine theater of operations. Call sign: Homer-Five-One.
Later, 3:17 a.m. CT, Friday morning, February 18, 2022: a significant increase in commercial air traffic over Ukraine, most of it in the west. An active Global Hawk; no River Joint.
Drone keeps changing its call-sign..https://www.flightradar24.com/SWIFT22/2ad9a688
ReplyDeleteRight now, Homer-Five-One is a manned RC-135 aircraft flying at "commercial" altitudes. Swift-Two-Two is an unmanned drone flying above 50,000 feet.
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