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usafphantom2 · 30 days

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A Combat Sent Returning from a 3 month deployment in Japan.

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✈Aircraft: Boeing RC-135U Combat Sent

🛩Registration: 64-14847

💺Operator: United States Air Force

📅Airframe Age: 59 Years

🛫Route: RODN-KOFF

#️⃣ Callsign: COBRA47

⏳Flight time: 17:04

📷Date: March 29, 2024

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#RC 135 #usaf #reconnaissance #cold war aircraft

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kgyst · 9 months

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Mai nem hihető trajektória

Angol RC-135 Belarusz felett

#RC-135

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sixeye-sketch · 2 years

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sun/moon

#35mm #35mm photography #lomography #135 #sunset over the building next to mine #stewies rc plane passing the moon #sorry about the dirt its to do with the glass of the scanner with the glossy photo paper #photo #mine

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tomorrowusa · 8 months

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Russia tried to shoot down a UK surveillance aircraft flying over international waters. Fortunately, the pilot was a bad shot and had defective ordnance on his plane.

A Russian pilot tried to shoot down an RAF surveillance plane after believing he had permission to fire, the BBC has learned. The pilot fired two missiles, the first of which missed rather than malfunctioned as claimed at the time. Russia had claimed the incident last September was caused by a "technical malfunction". The UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) publicly accepted the Russian explanation. But now three senior Western defence sources with knowledge of the incident have told the BBC that Russian communications intercepted by the RAF RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft give a very different account from the official version. The RAF plane - with a crew of up to 30 - was flying a surveillance mission over the Black Sea in international airspace on 29 September last year when it encountered two Russian SU-27 fighter jets. The intercepted communications show that one of the Russian pilots thought he had been given permission to target the British aircraft, following an ambiguous command from a Russian ground station.

Professionalism is not something which the Russian military is known for.

One Western source told the BBC the words they received were to the effect of "you have the target". This ambiguous language was interpreted by one of the Russian pilots as permission to fire. The loose language appears to have shown a high degree of unprofessionalism by those involved, sources said. In contrast, Nato pilots use very precise language when asking for and receiving permission to fire. The Russian pilot released an air-to-air missile, which successfully launched but failed to lock on to its target, the BBC has been told. It was a miss, not a malfunction. Defence sources have told the BBC that a row then broke out between the two Russian pilots. The pilot of the second SU-27 did not think they had been given permission to fire. He is said to have sworn at his comrade, effectively asking him what he thought he was doing. Yet the first pilot still released another missile. We had been told that the second missile simply fell from the wing - suggesting the weapon either malfunctioned or that the launch was aborted.

Shooting down the RAF RC-135 Rivet Joint could very well have brought NATO directly into the war. NATO's Article 5 stipulates that an attack on one NATO country is the same as an attack on all NATO countries.

In a much more recent incident, debris from a Russian drone fell on NATO member Romania.

Romania calls for calm as debris from possible Russian drone attacks on Ukraine discovered

In the early hours of Wednesday morning, villagers from eight communities near the banks of the Danube River — which forms a border between Romania and Ukraine — received alerts to their mobile phones warning them to keep calm but take shelter, as there was a possibility of objects coming from the sky. Not long after, residents near the small Romanian village of Plauru heard explosions. "We are scared," said Elisabeta Samsanov, one of the few dozen people living in the remote community just 300 metres from the Ukrainian port of Izmail, which has become a frequent target of Russian drones in recent weeks. "One night when they dropped one after another, we came out of the house ... and it felt like an earthquake."

And earlier this year the remains of a Russian Kh-55 missile were found in Poland – another NATO member.

Poland finds Russian missile in forest 500km from Ukrainian border: report

In late April 2023, a civilian reported the presence of a rocket stuck in the ground of a forest in Zamość, close to the city of Bydgoszcz. An investigation was launched by the Polish Air Force Institute of Technology to identify the debris. According to the local media channel RMF FM, a preliminary inspection found the rocket to be a Kh-55 cruise missile. Citing military sources, the radio station reported that the cruise missile was fired during an air raid on Ukraine carried out in December 2022 by Russian aircraft based in Belarus.

A reminder that Russia has no fucking business in Ukraine. Russia started the largest war in Europe since 1945 as an imperialistic land grab. Vladimir Putin is directly to blame for all the violence and destruction that's resulted from this conflict.

If Elon Musk is worried about nuclear war then perhaps he should put pressure on his buddies in Moscow instead of sabotaging Ukraine.

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briefenthusiastlight · 11 months

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【探索時分】揭中共殲-16攔截美RC-135之謎

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velosvelos · 2 years

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#rc-135 rivet joint

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planesawesome · 1 year

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Boeing RC-135

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moja-co · 4 months

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北朝鮮の弾道ミサイル実験を偵察しているRC-135Sコブラボール弾道ミサイル情報収集機のコールサイン

餃子45

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quarantineddreamer · 9 months

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Stats tag game

Thanks for the tag @luciechat 💜

I'm actually mainly gonna keep this RC/Andor specific cause that's my current fandom but I'll sprinkle in one or two ZK, why not.

most hits (2,400): Synchronous Scars | That's my longest fic in this fandom so far and still ongoing so not too surprised by this! (A RebelCaptain Andor AU).

fewest hits (204): After Narkina 5 | Just a little snippet I wrote about Cassian experiencing a few post-Narkina firsts. It's short and no ship content so it makes sense the hits are low, but I am genuinely proud of this one which is so rare for me.

most kudos (135): Synchronous Scars again!

fewest kudos (24/67): Also After Narkina 5, but depressingly As a Shadow (my ghost!jyn fic) also has very few kudos and that fic has a lot of my soul in it so wish that was a bit higher tbh 🥲

most comments (81): Synchronous Scars. But As a Shadow isn't far behind.

fewest comments (5/7): After Narkina 5 and B2EMO's Core Function (my beloved) are close on this!

most bookmarks (17): Scars again.

fewest bookmarks (0): After Narkina again! Surprsingly As a Shadow is next after that though (with 8, vs my B2EMO fic with 10) 🤔

most words (135,191): The Element of Change, my pride and joy during my time in the zutara fandom. I do intend to finish it one day, but man... That's a lot of words.

fewest words (855): After Narkina again. But maybe some of my drabbles are shorter?

I'm tagging (no pressure) @gaygingersnaps @lunapascal @youhavereachedtheendofpie and @frostbitepandaaaaa

#aaaand if anyone wanted to check these out #that would be super cool #like really really cool #or like idk rec to a friend if you like my shit #that's fun too #engagement is great very encouraging lol #idk i've just been struggling with writer's block a lot lately and it does help like it or not #but also i think for whatever my stuff just doesnt land as much these days and i gotta find a way to get over it 🤷‍♀️#okay sorry enough rambling #writer things #b writes #tag game

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enriquemzn262 · 2 years

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Boeing KC-135 refueling E-3

Or how RC-135s are made.

#aviation #air force #america #tanker #awacs #boeing

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kurano · 11 months

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中国軍J-16が米空軍RC-135正面を横切る映像公開、「不必要に攻撃的な飛行」と非難 | FlyTeam ニュース

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usafphantom2 · 1 month

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rivet joint (plueger)

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#RC 135 #rivet joint #usaf #SAC

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defensenow · 11 months

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Chinese J-16 Fighter Pilot Makes Dangerous Intercept of U.S. RC-135 Airc...

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pedrop61 · 1 year

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Su diverse pagine ho letto della presenza di un Global Hawk ( forte 10) in volo sul mar Nero, partito da Sigonella, ed è vero era lì presente, ma non è lo strumento in grado di fornire adeguato supporto per una trasferimento dati da scafo in mare, il drone acquatico, alla base presso Odessa. Per questo è necessaria una differente piattaforma. Casualmente, nelle stesse ore era in volo un Rc-135 britannico, aereo ben attrezzato di strumentazione adatta a fungere sia da ripetitore dei segnali dal drone in acqua alla base di controllo, sia , cosa ben peggiore e grave, a garantire una POSTAZIONE di comando e controllo dei droni. In entrambi i casi si profilerebbe un gravissimo atto ostile o di guerra nei confronti della Russia da parte della Gran Bretagna

#ucraina #NATO

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666blackpanther · 2 days

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