OK, if you planefags want a larger audience, you will need to pretend that not everybody knows as much about planes as you do.
Monkeywerx puts out video after video that explains nothing and means absolutely nothing.
Don't be like Monkeywerx. Or do, and have no audience, and convey no information to the Q audience.
C-17 - What is it? Why should anyone care? What does it mean if there is only 1 or if there are 25? Why would it matter they are in any particular location?
Roger that.
Shit... Sorry, Brother.
Boeing C-17 is a heavy lift 4-engine transport, a BIG plane. Similar to the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, just a lot newer.
Now.
The C-17 is unimportant. The issue is the fact that NO military aircraft are "squawking". Every aircraft has a radio called a "Transponder". It's what civilian Air Traffic Control (ATC) uses to identify specific aircraft. It transmits altitude and other information that when combined with Radar, can give an almost "3D" picture of the airspace to ATC personnel.
NO military aircraft are using the transponder, so the civilian sites, like:
Can't see them. They still show up on Radar, but with NO identifying information.
The military has their OWN system, and civilians don't have access to it.
So, normally most military aircraft USE transponders, it makes it easier for civilian ATC, but as of a few hours ago, all military aircraft over the continental United States (CONUS), stopped transmitting transponder codes.
It's unusual, and COULD (and i emphasize C-O-U-L-D) indicate a nationwide operation in progress.
That's MY take.
You other guys feel free to elaborate or correct my assumptions...
OK, if you planefags want a larger audience, you will need to pretend that not everybody knows as much about planes as you do.
Monkeywerx puts out video after video that explains nothing and means absolutely nothing.
Don't be like Monkeywerx. Or do, and have no audience, and convey no information to the Q audience.
C-17 - What is it? Why should anyone care? What does it mean if there is only 1 or if there are 25? Why would it matter they are in any particular location?
Same for all others.
Catch my drift?
Roger that.
Shit... Sorry, Brother. Boeing C-17 is a heavy lift 4-engine transport, a BIG plane. Similar to the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, just a lot newer.
Now. The C-17 is unimportant. The issue is the fact that NO military aircraft are "squawking". Every aircraft has a radio called a "Transponder". It's what civilian Air Traffic Control (ATC) uses to identify specific aircraft. It transmits altitude and other information that when combined with Radar, can give an almost "3D" picture of the airspace to ATC personnel.
NO military aircraft are using the transponder, so the civilian sites, like:
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/
Can't see them. They still show up on Radar, but with NO identifying information.
The military has their OWN system, and civilians don't have access to it.
So, normally most military aircraft USE transponders, it makes it easier for civilian ATC, but as of a few hours ago, all military aircraft over the continental United States (CONUS), stopped transmitting transponder codes.
It's unusual, and COULD (and i emphasize C-O-U-L-D) indicate a nationwide operation in progress.
That's MY take.
You other guys feel free to elaborate or correct my assumptions...
mtewamp...
And, I've been watching the last few nights and it was dead then too. Seems to me like flyboys gotta have sleep too.
Of course, if there are active missions you won't see them.
Damn. Is that the one with Mel Gibson, about the CIA in Vietnam?
I'd forgotten about that one...
Ah, sorry, I edited out that part as I realized after I posted that the plane in Air America was a C130, not a C17.