Yesterday picked up this drone out of Sigonella Sicily.RICO23
Another anon a couple of breads ago picked it up off the coast of Portugal.
The UAV has popped up again over Canuckistan in bound for the US.
RICO Pain incoming?
There was a UK drone yesterday too. Spotted it just before =RICO23==
UK uav callsignPOINTR48Pointer for 8?
Sauce is hex code ae2c38
add ?icao=(hexcode) to the link below
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/
so it looks like this
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae2c38
Originated from US base Sigonella AFB near Catania Sicily
Is it that hard for you to track history from this link
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae2c38
Airborne since 19:12 local time Sicily.
I picked it up 21:34 timestamp in filename on my original post.
Losing altitude will probably land @ Grand Forks AFB
Hexcode comes back to a RQ-4 Global Hawk.
RQ-4s have a very very long endurance.
Track the guy from just west of Sicily to Gibraltar area.
Picked him up again when it popped up over Canada.
Most probably judging from the altitude of the first pickup most likely Sigonella AFB Sicily
What are the odds two UAVsPOINTR48andRICO23
and RICO23 using0717as a squawk codeo7 Q
0717 squawk code tracking Q post 0717
Public: FBI/DOJ/O-WH/SD
Private: Clowns Clowns Clowns
Expand your thinking.
Q
Someone beat them to it the other day. Billionaire in a dildo.
Ya gotta love the BACN
Track origin is SSW of Catania just about right above Sigonella AFB.
Altitude indicated around 10k feet which is probably the altitude that the take-off crew for the UAV at Sigonella handed over to the mission crew in the US (or other location).
This was when the plane first showed on ADSb.
Global Hawk is flown by a Launch Recovery Element (LRE), and a Mission Control Element (MCE). The LRE is located at the aircraft base and functions to launch and recover the aircraft while en route to and from the target area. The MCE controls the Global Hawk for the bulk of the ISR mission. Like the LRE, the MCE is manned by one pilot, but adds a sensor operator to the crew. Command and control data links enable complete dynamic control of the aircraft. The pilot workstations in the MCE and LRE are the control and display interface (cockpit) providing aircraft health and status, sensors status and a means to alter the navigational track of the aircraft. From this station, the pilot communicates with outside entities to coordinate the mission (air traffic control, airborne controllers, ground controllers, other ISR assets).
https://www.military.com/equipment/rq-4-global-hawk