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Anonymous ID: 4e859d Jan. 9, 2021, 9:07 a.m. No.39316   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>9321 >>9364 >>9371 >>9437 >>9488 >>9494

PEACH84 USAF E-8 C Joint Stars with go arounds at Jax Int'l

PEACH88 E-8C Joint Stars off Space Coast and heading south nao

Both AC's out of Robins AFB, GA

 

The E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System, or Joint STARS, is an airborne battle management, command and control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platform. Its primary mission is to provide theater ground and air commanders with ground surveillance to support attack operations and targeting that contributes to the delay, disruption and destruction of enemy forces.

 

The E-8C is a modified Boeing 707-300 series commercial airframe extensively remanufactured and modified with the radar, communications, operations and control subsystems required to perform its operational mission. The most prominent external feature is the 27-foot (8 meters) long, canoe-shaped radome under the forward fuselage that houses the 24-foot (7.3 meters) long, side-looking phased array antenna.

 

The radar and computer subsystems on the E-8C can gather and display detailed battlefield information on ground forces. The information is relayed in near-real time to the Army and Marine Corps common ground stations and to other ground command, control, communications, computers and intelligence, or C4I, nodes.

 

The antenna can be tilted to either side of the aircraft where it can develop a 120-degree field of view covering nearly 19,305 square miles (50,000 square kilometers) and is capable of detecting targets at more than 250 kilometers (more than 820,000 feet). The radar also has some limited capability to detect helicopters, rotating antennas and low, slow-moving fixed wing aircraft.

 

As a battle management and command and control asset, the E-8C can support the full spectrum of roles and missions from peacekeeping operations to major theater war.

https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/104507/e-8c-joint-stars/

Anonymous ID: 4e859d Jan. 9, 2021, 9:37 a.m. No.39330   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>9364 >>9437 >>9488 >>9494

Indonesia's Sriwijaya Air flight SJ182 missing after takeoff

 

An Indonesian domestic airliner is feared to have crashed in the waters north of Jakarta on Saturday, with a navy official confirming that the location of the missing plane has been determined. Sriwijaya Air Flight SJ182, scheduled to fly from Jakarta to Pontianak, capital of West Kalimantan, lost contact with air traffic control soon after takeoff.

 

"The coordinates have been found and have been given to all navy vessels in the area," said navy official Abdul Rasyid as reported by Reuters. A spokesperson for Indonesia's Ministry of Transportation said the plane lost contact at 2:40 p.m. local time and an investigation was underway between the National Transportation Safety Committee and National Search and Rescue Agency.

 

The search and rescue agency has also released photos of what is believed to be wreckage from the flight. Sriwijaya said 62 people were on board. Earlier unconfirmed reports from Indonesia's air traffic control agency AirNav said there were 56 aboard the plane. Local media have reported that Sriwijaya was operating Boeing's 737-500 aircraft.

 

If the crash is confirmed, this will be the second major air disaster in just over two years for Indonesia. In October 2018, a Lion Air flight crashed with 189 people on board, in what would lead to Boeing's 737 MAX aircraft being grounded across the world. Lion is the country's largest private airline. A flight-tracking service Flightradar24 said on Twitter that the flight "lost more than 10,000 feet of altitude in less than one minute, about 4 minutes after departure from Jakarta."

 

Indonesian airlines' safety record had improved in recent years. They were banned for years from flying to the U.S. and Europe due to unaddressed safety concerns. But in 2016, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration announced that Indonesia had been granted a Category 1 rating after meeting safety standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organization. Indonesian airlines were also removed from the EU's blacklist in 2018.

 

Sriwijaya said in a statement it is "in contact with various related parties to get more detailed information" regarding the flight. Sriwijaya Group is Indonesia's third-largest domestic carrier after Lion Air and state-owned Garuda Indonesia, and operates Sriwijaya Air as well as Nam Air.

 

In 2018, Garuda's low-budget carrier Citilink Indonesia took over operations of both Sriwijaya and Nam. But after internal struggles, both parties terminated their partnership in 2019.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Transportation/Indonesia-s-Sriwijaya-Air-flight-SJ182-missing-after-takeoff

 

Here we go again….

Anonymous ID: 4e859d Jan. 9, 2021, 9:57 a.m. No.39341   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>9364 >>9437 >>9488 >>9494

U.K. to Lift Swiss Share-Trading Ban Following Brexit

 

The U.K. is set to reverse a ban on trading in Swiss shares following its exit from the European Union.

 

The Treasury plans to put legislation to lawmakers in the coming days that will take effect three weeks later if approved, according to a spokesman. The story was first reported by the Financial Times. “Once in force, the Swiss State Secretariat for International Financial Matters have indicated they will reciprocate by removing restrictions on U.K. trading venues,” the spokesman said.

 

The move has been expected. In September, the U.K. confirmed it would introduce the legislation as soon as its equivalence powers came into effect. Exchange operator CBOE Europe has said it’s planning to reintroduce Swiss-listed securities in the U.K. once British and Swiss mutual recognition is implemented.

 

The U.K. allowing Swiss shares to trade will do little to overcome the exodus of EU shares after Brexit. The three biggest venues in London that handle European shares saw almost all of this business shift into the EU on the first day of trading after the U.K. completed its exit from the bloc on Dec. 31. Aquis Exchange Plc Chief Executive Officer Alasdair Haynes told Bloomberg TV on Jan. 4 that 99.6% of its European stock trading moved to its parallel venue in Paris. Cboe Europe saw 90% shift to its Amsterdam venue, while 92% of such trades on London Stock Exchange Group Plc’s Turquoise platforms were inside the bloc by 3 p.m. in London on Jan. 4, the first day of trading after Brexit. The moves represent about 4.6 billion euros ($5.6 billion) of trades, according to data from Cboe Global Markets Inc.

 

A political row led to the Swiss Stock Exchange losing EU recognition in 2019, a move the U.K. had to comply with while still a member of the bloc. Brexit has now freed it of those constraints.

 

London’s dominance as an investment-management hub is also uncertain. The European Commission is studying whether to tighten rules over how EU–based funds delegate the management of portfolios to investors outside the bloc. While delegation isn’t likely to be banned, Brussels could make it more expensive to manage funds from third-party countries such as the U.K. by increasing compliance and governance obligations.

 

Britain and the EU have agreed to draft a memorandum of understanding around the regulation of financial markets by March, an agreement that will supplement the broader Christmas Eve trade agreement, but which won’t be as legally binding. An agreement would still help establish a framework for granting equivalent access to each others’ markets, with predictable rules and proper consultation on any decision to withdraw access.

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/u-k-to-lift-swiss-share-trading-ban-following-brexit-1.1546029