Wednesday 25 Aug 2004 N21NG: LJ-35A LearJet #343, Northrop Grumman JSTARS Integration Facility, Melbourne IAP 8:00am: Departs KMLB. 3:30pm: Lands KMLB. NASA 4: G-1159 Gulfstream II, NASA Kennedy Space Ctr 8:35am: Departs Patrick ABF to K_AL, poss Wallops Island Facility.

At 1:55pm EDT (1755z) E-8 JSTARS Mission Crew "STARGATE" was in comms with AWACS "DRAGNET UNIFORM" on 364.2. They passed Table Numbers for crypto between them. STARGATE was 75 miles east of Patrick AFB at the time. He corrected his ID from "RAZOR 33" (JSTARS Flight Crew c/s) a couple of...

Patrick AFB, NASA-KSC Area Log - Wednesday, 21 Jan 2004 NASA 4: G-1159 Gulfstream II, NASA-KSC, Florida 9:05am: Departs Patrick to DCA. CG 6018: HH-60J Jayhawk Helo, CGAS-Clearwater 9:05am: Low approach at Patrick, then works offshore with USCG boat. 12:03pm: Arrives at Patrick for fueling.

Patrick AFB Area Log - Friday, 27 Feb 2004 We heard from the Dutch F-16s today; so they are still TDY at Cecil. The exercises of the USS JFK acft continued; more Hawkeye callsigns than normal. So much comms traffic that it is nearly impossible to log. I am just posting some of it now. Scott AFB...

The Military is conducting fairly large exercises offshore northern Florida today, and comms can be heard all over the 225-400 MHz range. Beginning at 8:14am EST (1314z), AWACS "Darkstar Quebec" was up with Sealord on 267.5 announcing the acft he would be controlling. First, there was a four-ship...

Patrick AFB Area Log - Sunday, 14 March 2004 Comms were heard from various acrobatic acft at the Tico Airshow; the air-air cueing was heard on 127.775. Also snagged comms from several of the airshow acft returning home after the show. Snoopy Blimp pilot has long chat with Patrick Tower. NAVY EW...

Tuesday 27 Apr 2004 TERRA 5: JSTARS Northrop-Grumman Ground Sta, Melbourne FL 5:55am: Comms with Wizard (JSTARS 04 back-end crew) re the "dumping of all the loads on the crypto stuff." NASA 4: G-1159 Gulfstream II, NASA-KSC. 7:05am: Departs Patrick to Washington National. 6:45pm: Lands Patrick.

Thurs 15 Apr 2004 BRONCO 74: OV-10D, US State Dept, Patrick AFB 9:18am: Takeoff. HERC 97: C-130 10:20am: Lands Patrick.

Wed. 7 Apr 2004 I was able to snag comms from many Mil acft that abounded in Florida today from Key West down south all the way to Pinecastle Range in mid Florida. NY-ANG F-16s continued to work local ranges; some of them departed back to Syracuse, after a week's stay here. Many NASA T-38s came...

It looks like it will be another good day for monitoring the Military in the Key West area. DARKSTAR QUEBEC, an AWACS acft, is controlling aircraft in the Tarpon Range. MAKO and SHARK F-16s from Homestead JARB are working the area. VANDY flights are also working in that area; and DARKSTAR Q asked...

I am curious about use of a chopper in the higher altitudes of Afghanistan. The Canadians are in Kabul and the word is our Griffin, a Bell 412 helicopter, can't work in the mountains. Anyone now why..... lack of power at altitude, lack of oxygen ? Allen

Anybody know what this is or was? http://www.darkstar.ukonline.co.uk/patch2.jpg

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2004/09/mil-040921-voa01.htm Haaretz: Israel to Get 5000 US Smart Bombs, Bunker Busters VOA News 21 Sep 2004, 12:40 UTC An Israeli newspaper says the United States plans to sell Israel nearly 5,000 smart bombs, including 500 one-ton "bunker...

While looking for something else in the KZLA NOTAM current as of Wed, 15 Sep 2004 17:53:00 GMT, I found this interesting warning: FDC 4/5471 - CA.. POINT MUGU NAS, CA. RADIATION HAZARD TO AIRCRAFT EXISTS WITHIN A 1.5 NM RADIUS OF 340555N/1190700W. THE AREA IS HOT CONTINIOUSLY FROM SFC TO 8000 FT...

Caution: I *think* this is genuine, not Photoshopped, but these days you can never tell. Anyway, genuine or fake, it's kind of neat. http://www.ammochiefs.com/Diego%20Garcia%204.jpg

Some time ago I noted that http://www.aia.af.mil/homepages/ho/70s-2.cfm says, The 6300th Support Squadron (later redesignated 6300th Aerospace Support Squadron) was activated at Ko Kha, Thailand, on 1 July 1971 to support Cobra Talon. and asked, inter alia, what Cobra Talon is/was. Some possible...

Somewhat against my better judgment, I got interested in the current Harpoon discussions and, googling about, found http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/factfile/missiles/wep-harp.html The Harpoon missile has been integrated on foreign F-16 aircraft and is presently being integrated on foreign...

When the US conducts space launches from Vandenberg and KSC, keep-out areas where rocket hardware may fall are announced in NOTAMs carried at https://www.notams.jcs.mil/ Is there somewhere that similar keep-out instructions/NOTAMs are published for launches from Tanegashima, Kourou,...

My apologies re the cross-posting, it was Rauni who started it. A bit of context: Where this came from, was a thread on soc.men, where it was asserted by another poster ( Neither Rauni nor myself ), that " orders were given on 9/11 to *keep US fighters on the ground ", so that they could not...

Has somebody some figures, how many of this two airplanes, Tu-28 (128) and Yak-28/27/25 has been used/produced by the Soviet AF in the 70/80? I assume those two never were exported? Why has been the Tu-28 replaced so soon by the Tu-22? andreas