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GAURD17USAF Rivet Joint back to Offutt AFB and on a go-around
(think Pilot meant to put in GUARD)
The Rivet Joint's modifications are primarily related to its on-board sensor suite, which allows the mission crew to detect, identify and geolocate signals throughout the electromagnetic spectrum. The mission crew can then forward gathered information in a variety of formats to a wide range of consumers via Rivet Joint's extensive communications suite. The interior seats more than 30 people, including the cockpit crew, electronic warfare officers, intelligence operators and in-flight maintenance technicians. The Rivet Joint fleet was re-engined with CFM-56 engines with an upgraded flight deck instrumentation and navigational systems to FAA/ICAO standards. These standards include conversion from analog readouts to a digital "glass cockpit" configuration. All Rivet Joint airframe and mission systems modifications are overseen by L-3 Communications (previously Raytheon), under the oversight of Air Force Materiel Command.
https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/104608/rc-135vw-rivet-joint/
Got a biggun on approach for Ramstein AFB from Amman Jordan-straight over Israeli Airspace too-no detour.
RCH834 USAF C-5 Galaxy on approach for Ramstein AFB from Amman Jordan
Med. busy for last few days with several SAM flights and those C-17's that came out of Algeria last night.
Persian Gulf also active with the SAM flights too-habbenings upstairs for the last week when the two SAMS departed on Weds. (early) prior to the Capitol Bldg shit getting hot.
>>40089 pb
SAM448 USAF G5 on final at Miami Int'l from JBA
Chinese state media blast latest Pompeo move on Taiwan
China's state media lashed out at the latest move on Taiwan by the departing Trump administration, accusing U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of "seeking to maliciously inflict a long-lasting scar on China-U.S. ties."
A writer for the official Xinhua News Agency also said in a commentary Sunday that the lifting of longstanding restrictions on U.S. government contacts with Taiwanese counterparts proves that Pompeo "is only interested in stoking unwarranted confrontations, and has no interest in world peace." Another commentary posted online by CGTN, the English-language channel of state broadcaster CCTV, called Pompeo's announcement "a cowardly act of sabotage" of the next U.S. administration. "The Trump administration, in its continuing efforts to burn the house down before leaving office, has crossed a dangerous red line with China days before incoming President Joe Biden takes office," the commentary read in part. Biden takes office on Jan. 20. There was no immediate comment from the Chinese government on Pompeo's decision to end State Department restrictions on how U.S. officials can interact with Taiwan, which he said had been implemented to appease the Communist regime in Beijing. "No more," Pompeo declared in a statement Saturday. "Today I am announcing that I am lifting all of these self-imposed restrictions."
Taiwan is a sensitive issue for China's ruling Communist Party, which considers the self-governing island of 23.6 million people a renegade province that should be brought under its rule.
Under the one-China policy, the U.S. recognizes Beijing as the government of China and doesn't have diplomatic relations with Taiwan. However, it maintains unofficial contacts including a de facto embassy in Taipei, the capital, and supplies military equipment for the island's defense. Taiwan's leaders welcomed Pompeo's announcement. "We are expressing our gratitude toward the U.S. for speaking out and supporting Taiwan," Premier Su Tseng-chang told reporters. "We also hope to interact actively with each other further, so that Taiwan could have an even bigger space in the international society." He and Foreign Minister Joseph Wu, who thanked Pompeo on Twitter, emphasized the values of freedom and democracy shared by Taiwan and the U.S. – a contrast to China's authoritarian one-party state. Pompeo's announcement came two days after he said he would send Kelly Craft, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, to Taiwan for meetings this week. She is due to arrive on Wednesday. Craft's trip follows one by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar in August, the first Cabinet member to visit Taiwan since 2014, and another by Under Secretary of State Keith Krach in September.
China, which opposes Taiwan having its own foreign relations, sharply criticizes all such interaction. It stepped up aerial patrols off Taiwan last year and used its diplomatic clout to block Taiwan from participating in international forums, such as the World Health Organization's annual meeting. Hu Xijin, the editor of China's state-owned Global Times newspaper, tweeted that if Pompeo's announcement is the new starting point for America's Taiwan policy, it will also mark the start of the countdown for the survival of Taiwan's government. "(China's) fighter jets can fly over Taiwan island anytime," he tweeted. "The option of using military means to solve (the) Taiwan question will also be put on the table." Hu's tweet was later deleted, but the reason was not clear.
Pompeo said that the U.S. maintains relationships with unofficial partners around the world, and that Taiwan is no exception.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/US-China-tensions/Chinese-state-media-blast-latest-Pompeo-move-on-Taiwan
Pompeo lifts "self-imposed restrictions" on U.S.-Taiwan relationship
https://www.axios.com/pompeo-lift-restrictions-us-taiwan-relationship-d5adf857-7c45-4b34-93f3-64ad4461124a.html
99-6143 USAFSOC C-32B and GHOST53 USMC G4 departed Hickam AFB Oahu
Special Ops departed Guam yesterday for Hickam
Departed Eglin 0107 ne to NAS Oceana then west to Sacramento, CA McClellan Field for ground stop then on to Hickam AFB as RCH912
0108 depart to Guam
Mostly see the Special Ops 757's as a tail # call sign-at least on this end YMMV.
SAM453 USAF C-40B departed JBA nw
State Dept. AC
3 USAF C-17 Globemasters inbound from Ramstein AFB
RCH888-chek't-on descent for Dover AFB tail # is 05-5151 5+5+1+5+1= 17
Rucky Trips confirm the tail #-cap2
RCH165 and RCH806 sw over Maine
Busy for a Sunday night
NIGHT76 USAF E-4B Nightwatch departed Offutt AFB and on descent back to earlier depart of Wright-Patterson AFB
RCH165 RCH806 C-17's that were behind RCH888 that touched down at Dover earlier
RCH662 C-17 behind those two with RCH550 behind that
5 C-17's from Ramstein already
SAM453 State Dept AC continues wn from JBA
NIGHT76 Nightwatch on ground at Wright-Patterson AFB
That it went back makes me think the rumors are still on the table.
If it stayed at Offutt I would have thought the percentage less.
Just a hunch and muh opinion
Discount nothing
SAM326 USAF G5 se and looks like it is heading to Ft. Bragg-from Anchorage, AK-Elmendorf JB
Does not appear to be lined up for JBA-let you know if it changes
This is the AC that departed Lahore, Pakiland on 0107
This completes a global navigation
Departed JBA on 0105for ground stop at Ramstein then depart fro ground stop at either Lahore, Pakiland or Kabul Afghailand then depart to Dubai.
Confirmed depart on 0107 Dubai to Lahore for groun stop.
This AC was in Lahore twice on successive days or one stop at Kabul prior to the confirmed Lahore depart for Singapore arrival on 0108
Arrived at Singapore Changi Int'l on 0108 and a later departure nw to Yokota AB, Japan for 0109 arrival and ground stop then depart to Anchorage for early arrival
RCH345 USAF C-5 Galaxy departed Panama Pacifico Airport north after an overnight-inbound from Lackland AFB San Antonio