Anonymous ID: 7d0ca7 March 8, 2022, 8:20 p.m. No.15817965   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8111 >>8175 >>8305 >>8374 >>8565

HOMER39 USAF RC-135 Combat Sent off Egyptian coastline after some low alt screwing around off Lebanon

From Souda Bay, Crete

Only two of these

 

They were not at low altitude for very long so either they found something else and were directed to Egyptian coastline or were told to GTFO

 

The RC-135U Combat Sent provides strategic electronic reconnaissance information to the president, secretary of defense, Department of Defense leaders, and theater commanders.

 

All RC-135U aircraft are equipped with an aerial refueling system, giving it an unlimited flying range. Communication equipment includes high frequency, very high frequency, and ultra high frequency radios. The navigation equipment incorporates ground navigation radar, a solid state Doppler system, and an inertial navigation system that merges celestial observations and Global Positioning System data. Although the flight crew stations are similarly configured, the reconnaissance equipment is slightly unique within each airframe. The aircraft are identified by their distinctive antennae arrays on the "chin" and wing tips, large cheek fairings, and extended tail. Crew composition includes two pilots, one navigator, two airborne systems engineers, and a minimum of 10 electronic warfare officers, or "Ravens," and six or more electronic, technical, and area specialists.

 

https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/104495/rc-135u-combat-sent/