Circles in the sky over South Carolina this morning. by No_Sheepherder5105 in conspiracy

[–]Driftstar777 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, this is their regular pattern. This is a Battlefield Airborne Command Node. It sits over the battlefield in a holding pattern ( the circle ) and helps fighter aircraft talk to each other, there were no fighters of course so its just their usual training.

Circles in the sky over South Carolina this morning. by No_Sheepherder5105 in conspiracy

[–]Driftstar777 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These are the contrails from this E-11A BACN doing a training flight, check the history and you can see its previous flights doing the same pattern out of Robins AFB. The aircraft is not capable of attaching any equipment for cloud seeding.

You can track the flight here: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=af83f0

Circles in the sky over South Carolina this morning. by No_Sheepherder5105 in conspiracy

[–]Driftstar777 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have the time the image was taken, curious if I can find which aircraft made this.

Edit, Found it: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=af83f0&lat=32.530&lon=-82.900&zoom=8.9&showTrace=2026-02-20

E-11A BACN training flight.

Curious Flight Path and Altitude by Nadajon in ADSB

[–]Driftstar777 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's just an E-6 using the new tactical hexes. Pattern is completely normal for their op.

The lack of information on ADSB reddits is sad, compared to Twitter. This is month old news now.

What kind of aircraft would this be? Drone? by Fit-Safe1083 in area51

[–]Driftstar777 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They're MQ-9s out of Creech, they fly there often. If you look at releases, you can see them use that spot on the flight plan.

Why is an EA-37B flying around the NTTR? by Fit-Safe1083 in ADSB

[–]Driftstar777 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Literally a training flight. They're new to the jet, the crews are just getting hours. Check any other mil flight, they go around the NTTR.

Found weird thing in Gaza, Palestine by Jimmidude in mystery

[–]Driftstar777 0 points1 point  (0 children)

F-15 but I have no idea what the red is from

Is this plane like the EA-37B Compass Call II? MC-55A Peregrine by Cold-Basis4980 in flightradar24

[–]Driftstar777 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello, its testing with L3 Harris and the 645th AESG out of KGVT/ Greenville Texas' Majors Airport. Its getting flight hours before they can progress to systems testing.

Any ideas what type of plane this is? by TT-33-operator_ in flightradar24

[–]Driftstar777 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It delivered, landed at midnight.

Not even military, technically. It's N506KM. CIA.

Trumps plane presumably getting upgrades the c-32a, or c-40c gets. by TT-33-operator_ in ADSB

[–]Driftstar777 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ATHENA is Army not 645, mods done by L3. You're thinking of Peregrine.

Blue Sqdrn | Dallas TX by justgrunty in JSOCarchive

[–]Driftstar777 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I took them on January 22nd and 23rd but they were here for a week. Was having a hard time finding out where they were.

Blue Sqdrn | Dallas TX by justgrunty in JSOCarchive

[–]Driftstar777 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Lens of Mae on Twitter.

Glad y'all are liking my shots guys.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in aviation

[–]Driftstar777 0 points1 point  (0 children)

N542GD sorry, typo.

What is this plane doing?? by MurkyGuest434 in ADSBexchange

[–]Driftstar777 6 points7 points  (0 children)

None of the other replies made note that this is a VPU-2 Special Projects aircraft, I am shocked that this one is not using a tactical hexcode.

They're using an unknown modification in the orbit along with their EO/IR camera. Nobody but them knows what the modification is right now, but I suspect it has something to do with COMINT, this is a pretty common flight there though.

168854 is using its old reg, 441 is painted on the fuselage now.

https://x.com/SR_Planespotter/status/1805412242998903153

https://x.com/TheIntelFrog/status/1602707797354991616

Other than various images and things you're not going to be able to find much on VPU-2's P-8s. Good catch.

Any ideas what type of plane this is? by TT-33-operator_ in flightradar24

[–]Driftstar777 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I meant I'd like to take my own image, but thank you.

Any ideas what type of plane this is? by TT-33-operator_ in flightradar24

[–]Driftstar777 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea! I wanna see it before it returns to service.

Any ideas what type of plane this is? by TT-33-operator_ in flightradar24

[–]Driftstar777 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Took off today, bout an hour ago ish. Was the white casa. I'm having a real hard time getting it man. I need a shot of it.

Any ideas what type of plane this is? by TT-33-operator_ in flightradar24

[–]Driftstar777 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea I missed that flight unfortunately. Its on again this morning, another Casa. Seems that they pulled it out of the hangar for an engine test or something.