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Hagel: Defense Department Has Options on Syria
USS Barry launches a cruise missile (US Navy Photo)By Cheryl Pellerin, American Forces Press ServiceABOARD A MILITARY AIRCRAFT – Shortly after takeoff on the first leg of his second official trip to...
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Milcom Blog Logs - COTHEN 25 Aug 2013
Another day with a HF rig here on the radio ranch on the CBP/CG COTHEN network. Below are the results of that monitor session. Best freq during the 24 hour period was 5732.0 kHz.Intercepts By Frequency...
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Crisis in Syria - Monitoring the Syrian Domestic Broadcast Services
A new article Crisis in Syria - Monitoring the Syrian Domestic Broadcast Services has just been posted to the Shortwave Central Blog at...
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Warplanes spotted in Cyprus as tensions rise in Damascus
The UK Guardian is reporting signs of advanced readiness at likely hub of air campaign as UN inspection team comes under fire near site of alleged chemical attack.Warplanes and military transporters...
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Milcom Blog Logs: Cyprus Mode-S Report USAF Mil Spy Planes in the Area
When any crisis brews, I always like to turn to Logistics (personnel and cargo) military aircraft movements to get a sense of how serious a crisis is, maybe where it is heading and what beans, bullets...
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Troubled Waters -- Eastern Med/Syria Crisis Deepens
There is a lot of military hardware either sailing to or in the Eastern Med right now. MilcomMP has been going over all the reports and here is what we have been able to gleam from them.Russian...
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Mode-S/ADS Milcom Intercepts 8 September 2013 - Btown NC
Here is another round of Mode-S/ADS-B intercepts and selected ATC call signs logged from here on the radio ranch in WNC. All dates/times are UTC. Quiet Sunday for milair activity on the Mode-S box...
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Mode-S/ADS Milcom Intercepts 8-9 September 2013 Cyprus - Syria sends jets to...
Scrambled: Two RAF Typhoons took off after fighters, thought to be Su-24s, were sent from SyriaHere are the latest Mode-S intercepts from the island of Cyprus. During the last 24 hours the UK Express...
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Mode-S/ADS Milcom Intercepts 9 September 2013 - Btown NC
US Navy P-8A AircraftHere is another round of Mode-S/ADS-B intercepts and selected ATC call signs logged from here on the radio ranch in WNC. All dates/times are UTC. Mixed bag of aircraft transiting...
View ArticleMode-S NAOC/TACAMO/JStars Intercepts 9-10 Sep 2013
Here is a list of NAOC/TACAMO/JSTARS aircraft activity spotted yesterday by Mode-S boxes worldwide.NAOC ADFEB6 75-0125 AIMES24 2013-09-09 18:22:35 E-4B United States USAF | 55WG | 1ACCS [KOFF]...
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Who or what is Mainsail?
This question in the title has popped up more frequently on various radio newsgroups now that EAMs transmitted on the HF-GCS are signed by using the call sign "Mainsail" instead of the Global station...
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Mode-S/ADS Milcom Intercepts 10 September 2013 - Btown NC
Here is another round of Mode-S/ADS-B intercepts and selected ATC call signs logged from here on the radio ranch in WNC. All dates/times are UTC. Lots of USAF AMC cargo aircraft transiting over us...
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Joint Operational Access Exercise
A C-17 Globemaster taxis Aug. 18, 2013, at Alexandria International Airport, La. The aircraft was participating in a personnel drop of 681 U.S. Army paratroopers during Joint Operational Access...
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Mode-S/ADS Milcom Intercepts 11 September 2013 - Btown NC
Here is another round of Mode-S/ADS-B intercepts and selected ATC call signs logged from here on the radio ranch in WNC. All dates/times are UTC. A bunch of tankers today and a lot of EAM tanker...
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Mode-S/ADS Milcom Intercepts 12 September 2013 - Btown NC
Here is another round of Mode-S/ADS-B intercepts and selected ATC call signs logged from here on the radio ranch in WNC. All dates/times are UTC. Another day with my mystery Mode-S address (AF14EC)...
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Boeing Delivers last C-17 to the Air Force
USAF C-17 Serial 10-0223 Mode-S Hex Code AD4F17takes off for Charleston AFB and duty with the 437AW. Boeing has delivered the final C-17 produced for the U.S. Air Force, more than two decades after the...
View ArticleMode-S NAOC/TACAMO/JStars Intercepts 12-13 Sep 2013
Here is a list of NAOC/TACAMO/JSTARS aircraft activity spotted yesterday by Mode-S boxes worldwide.NAOC ADFEB5 74-0787 --- 2013-09-12 19:55:43 E-4B United States USAF | 55WG | 1ACCS [KOFF] Omaha...
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Charleston reservists share long history with C-17
The Air Force's first C-17 arrives at Charleston Air Force Base, S.C. June 14, 1993 approaches the runway amid a sea of C-141 Starlifthers. Now 20 years later the final Air Force C-17 will be arriving...
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100K & Going: Airmen at Grand Forks AFB help reach Global Hawk flying milestone
By Staff Sgt. Luis Loza Gutierrez, 319th Air Base Wing Public AffairsGRAND FORKS AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. -- Although the days of the bombers and tankers are long gone, Airmen at Grand Forks Air Force...
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Mode-S/ADS Milcom Intercepts 13 September 2013 - Btown NC
USAF T-1A Aircraft Assigned to Randolph AFB, TX (USAF Photo)Here is another round of Mode-S/ADS-B intercepts and selected ATC call signs logged from here on the radio ranch in WNC. All dates/times are...
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