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Florida Mil Acft Comms Log - Wed 25Aug2004 by
AllanStern
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.
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JSTARS comms plentiful in Florida Today. by
AllanStern
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...
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Patrick AFB, NASA-KSC Area Log - Wednesday, 21 Jan 2004 by
AllanStern
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.
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Florida Military Comms Logging by
AllanStern
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...
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Busy busy monitoring day in Florida, Georgia by
AllanStern
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...
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Florida Mil Comms; Tico Warbird Acft by
AllanStern
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...
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Florida Military Log - Tuesday 27 Apr 2004 by
AllanStern
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.
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April 17th 04 08:38 PM
by miso
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Busy day for MilComms Monitoring - Wed, 7 Apr 2004 by
AllanStern
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...
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by Ron
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Mil Acft Comms all over Florida today (Friday) by
AllanStern
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...
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High altitude Helicopter work by
Allen
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
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5000 Bombs by
Allen Thomson
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...
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Radiation hazard? by
Allen Thomson
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...
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September 18th 04 12:44 AM
by Denyav
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Picture from Diego Garcia runway by
Allen Thomson
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
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COBRA TALON, COBRA SPOT by
Allen Thomson
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...
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F-15/16 Harpoon ( Was: B-52/Harpoon) by
Allen Thomson
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...
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NOTAMs for non-US space launches? by
Allen Thomson
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,...
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Interception : Was: There Are Sheeple For Every Gummint by
Andre Lieven
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...
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Tu-28 and Yak-28 numbers by
andreas
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
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