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

Teesside is one of Draken Europes main bases, gets used to mainly support their work with the RAF, their other is at Bournemouth (so probably, not sure, gets used for work with the RN).

There’s a lot of history to this but the operation was for many years run by a UK company (Cobham Aviation Services)…way way back the services each had their own specialist units/squadrons that acted as “targets” and/or provided electronic warfare training but it got farmed out to the private sector a long time ago.

Flight radar in Google. Scroll over to Israel and it's just in the sea between there and Cyprus. It might be harmless, it is seemingly on its own and lots of commercial flights around it.

Love to see that in real life.

This - not sure if it's just a flight path or whether they are flying round and round a particular area.

why has the US plane going towards Israel got it's tracker on? surely that's not safe??

It makes sense - we’re on the coast and often have helicopters overhead, and I like a wee nosy at what’s about, but very often there isn’t a location. Making their presence known.

Surely it’s tactical

@PlasticineKing Game playing. Bloody scary at the moment.

The US to Israel plane looks as though it’s taken off from a ship in the Ionian Sea. I also wondered what it was doing, it’s really close to Beirut now

I've been told by my DH it's actually a remotely controlled surveillance drone... fascinating

Whenever I’m in north Norfolk there are noisy USAAF fighters doing manoeuvres over the coast. Deafening at times.

@Hello412 😱How does he know that?

Like this one?

Thats just a decoy whale 😂

No bloody idea 🤣🤣

Yep apparently so

It’s true the C130 design goes way back into the 50s but that airframe will have come off the production line much more recently than that and the type is still regarded by many as one of the best transport/utility/search and rescue aircraft that has ever flown….lots still flying good work all around the world.

At least two USAF bases in Norfolk area - Mildenhall and Lakenheath,

Both recently posted on Facebook saying they were doing joint training ops at night and to be aware of increased flights.

They're on Facebook.

Also wondering how he knows that. So much knowledge. I have FOMO now 😂

Oh, wow!

Cobham, a major UK company, was sold to the US a few years ago. Almost impossible to believe that a company of such calibre was handed over to another country.

I was just going to bed. Now I have to look at Flightradar.😁