Anonymous ID: 3ec078 Aug. 10, 2018, 10:30 a.m. No.2540146   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0232

Planefag located AZAZ0909 #3. It was descending, went off radar, disappeared for a while, then reappeared on radar after having probably stopped somewhere ENE of last known point. The line connecting the two radar traces is spurious and was extrapolated by ADSBexchange.com . We are unable to fetch flight history from ADSB to get the exact time interval between radar traces, to estimate how far it went and how long it may have stopped. The pink dashed line was drawn in by me and does not signify an actual radar track.

KAF Recon Squad, operator #7, over.

Anonymous ID: 3ec078 Aug. 10, 2018, 10:36 a.m. No.2540210   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>2540141

>>2540127

>>2540096

Seeing the E6B Mercury aloft is not in itself any cause for alarm and does not signify something out of the ordinary. We generally see these planes every day. It's interesting to read about their mission though.

 

At https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_E-6_Mercury :

The Boeing E-6 Mercury (formerly E-6 Hermes) is an airborne command post and communications relay based on the Boeing 707-320. The original E-6A manufactured by Boeing's defense division entered service with the United States Navy in July 1989, replacing the EC-130Q. This platform, now modified to the E-6B standard, conveys instructions from the National Command Authority to fleet ballistic missile submarines (see communication with submarines), a mission known as TACAMO (TAke Charge And Move Out). The E-6B model deployed in October 1998 also has the ability to remotely control Minuteman ICBMs using the Airborne Launch Control System. The E-6B replaced Air Force EC-135Cs in the "Looking Glass" role, providing command and control of U.S. nuclear forces should ground-based control become inoperable. With production lasting until 1991, the E-6 was the final new derivative of the Boeing 707 to be built.[2]

 

Like the E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control system (AWACS) aircraft, the E-6 is adapted from Boeing's 707-320 airliner. The first E-6 made its maiden flight from Boeing's Renton Factory on 19 February 1987, when it was flown to Boeing Field, Seattle, for fitting of mission avionics. The aircraft was delivered to the Navy for testing on 22 July 1988. The E-6A, which was initially named Hermes, entered service with VQ-3 on 3 August 1989, with the second squadron, VQ-4 receiving its first E-6As in January 1991, allowing the EC-130Q to be phased out in June that year. The E-6A was renamed Mercury in autumn 1991 by request of the US Navy.[3] Sixteen were delivered from 1988 to 1992.[4]

 

The E-6B is an upgrade of the E-6A. It included a battlestaff area and updated mission equipment. The flight deck systems were later replaced with an off-the-shelf 737 Next Generation cockpit. This greatly increases the situational awareness of the pilot and saves significant cost over the previous custom avionics package. The first E-6B was accepted in December 1997. All 16 E-6A aircraft were modified to the E-6B standard, with the final delivery taking place on 1 December 2006.[5]

Operational history

 

Codenamed Looking Glass, it is United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM)'s Airborne Command Post (ABNCP), designed to take over in case the Global Operations Center (GOC), located at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, is destroyed or incapable of communicating with strategic forces. The term "Looking Glass" is used because the ABNCP "mirrors" the abilities of the US Strategic Command GOC to control nuclear forces.[6]

The E-6 fleet is based at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, and operated by Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron 3 (VQ-3), VQ-4, and VQ-7.

Anonymous ID: 3ec078 Aug. 10, 2018, 10:44 a.m. No.2540318   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0389 >>0510

>>2540280

>>2540165

Don't dox yourselves, anon.

Don't offer any personal information that could be used to narrow down the pool of people and facilitate your identification by /badguys/ . This is a war zone. Practice good op sec.

Don't offer name, sex, location, age, marital status, education, occupation, type of device you're using, name of your ISP, your time zone, etc.

Anonymous ID: 3ec078 Aug. 10, 2018, 10:52 a.m. No.2540411   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0454 >>0477 >>0529

>>2540389

Anon it is about minimizing risk.

If /badguys/ with a big database want to target an individual on this board, every scrap of info about that person narrows down the field of who it could be.

Op Sec is about minimizing risk.

No one said this board is risk-free; it isn't.

Anons should be prudent.