Flight radar tonight

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Why are they so many military flights over Lincolnshire and north sea ?

theres many typhoons and 5 canadian air force planes

i love flight radar but don’t understand everything.

EG Why is there a US military plane that came from Norwich area and is now off the coast of Wales for example, do we do joint practice or something?

apologies if it’s a daft question…

There are US airbases in the UK, Mildenhall for one.

There’s a KC-135 tanker westbound out in that part of the world ATM…could be off Stateside, could be setting up to refuel somebody (who may not be visible on Flightradar)…have to wait and see, or not..

And the RAF/USAF/just about everybody in NATO do indeed do joint practices and joint exercises at times.

Draken is a contract provider of tactical fighter aircraft. Who knew?

Yes go in flight radar and have a look at the planes and click on them. They shape tell you what they are - or hints at it. This is a typhoon and it shows you it flight path

Thanks @JBJ and @notimagain interesting!

EG Why is there a US military plane that came from Norwich area and is now off the coast of Wales for example, do we do joint practice or something?

There is one from Norwich off the coast over the North see that doesn't appear to be going anywhere, so from what @notimagain says it could also be refueling somebody ? Really is fascinating.
We had a prop plane, quite big though, go low overhead earlier, popped onto flight radar and it was a US military aircraft going to the base up the road. Well I presume it was, the rest of the area isn't great for landing a plane unless you want to do it on a hillside.

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There are loads of joint exercises. It's how the UK and its allies practice and one of the main reasons they are so ready to deploy.

Me too 😂 off I go to spy o. The planes and share them with husband

The “privately owned” typhoon went over our way and I missed it! It’s mimicking the flight path of the zodiac01

Airspace closures are down to the locals, and whether it is wise to use airspace that is open is down to individual airlines.

If you look closely you’ll see that traffic over places like Iran and Lebanon tonight is mainly the local carriers such as MEA (Middle East Airlines) Jordanian Airlines and one or two of the Gulf based LoCos….

Most of the major carriers, especially the Western ones, heading for the sub continent and the Far East are taking a southerly routing over Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

I like to look round the world. Head over to Ukraine.

DH has just said they often do exercises without trackers on and it’s probably deliberate that they have them on at the moment

Tel aviv has the most watched plane at the mo :-(

The Pacific islands are interesting too

There are lots of military planes from Norfolk, through Yorkshire and Northumberland up into the south of Scotland. Not sure what they are doing.

FORTE13 us air force heading into Israel at the moment.

Look at the path of this Canadian military beast, great fun

The Norfolk ones have been doing large, repeated loops around an area of the north-sea off Tyneside.

Do you have a link? Can’t find it
acrually just found it. Thought it was in uk and is near Israel

MMM…. Us air force plane off Israel