In the last 30 minutes I've seen cargo planes from the US, Italy, Spain, France, UAE, and Tunisia all transiting in and around Sardinia and Sicily. The NATO AWACS there makes me think a NATO exercise going on.
Those two Spanish and French cargo planes flying parallel are basically following two American planes that are a few hundred miles ahead (but now not showing on the map).
Middle east?
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One very odd thing earlier on night shift, a C-17 flew all the way from Spain to southern Italy, turned around and went back to Spain. Never descended from altitude.
Could be he forgot his wallet, could be….paratroopers? Sounds ridiculous, but this was hours ago before the other activity. Also one of our C-17's landed in Sicily, and subsequently two smaller C-26's took off (20 person cap.). One flew to Aviano, the other flew toward the middle east.