Unusual foreign military air traffic in US
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UK and French Military Airbus traffic, round-trips to Ft. Hood, TX. Just thought it was odd...
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A UK RAF flew into here in the last 24 hours.
I’ve stopped posting on them as there’s always “ an expert” who likes to say “ ignore it ,there’s nothing to see here”.
There’s a lot of UK stuff flying into and out of Senegal, Equitoreal Guinea,Gabon. That’s unusual because they are not Commonwealth Countries( but they do have Rothschild mining interests). There was also an earthquake in Gabon yesterday. Just the one , records show there’s been none in 20 years.
I pick up UK flights using the RRR signal( as most C17 and Airbus 400 fly on these. I’ve seen at least 1 a week flying into and out of Fort Hood over the last month or so.
I tried to post on a really unusual flight 48 hours ago. It was a UK RAF transporter flying out of US Space Command Base ( The Arsenal) in a straight line out towards California rather than returning to the UK.
Will be curious as to whether Monkey mentions it..
I have seen Russian, French, Israeli and at the moment there is a German R44 over Detroit. https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=3e0777 I've asked if anyone knew if this is normal (like training together) but so far, no answer.
I know that it is done, but have not seen many at one time. I'm kind of wondering if the UK and French flights to Hood are bringing troops for some kind of specialized training.
Not just foreign air traffic anomalies. I've been curiously monitoring T-38's flying extended routes across multiple states. T-38's are training aircraft typically.
Something else squawking as T-38's? Sneaky little buggers.
I posted this in the discussion thread a bit ago:
So as to not create another plane fag post, I'll comment here. Two Airbus A332's one French and one British, left Ft. Hood recently. Is it common for the Brits and French to use Airbus as military aircraft? Why would they be in Ft. Hood of all places? I find it weird.
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They don't have C17 and C5 and special purpose tankers like we do. They rely on a commercial airbus platform and modify it to fit their needs. Also foreign military (friendly) air traffic into and out of the USA is not alarming, it happens more than any one realizes, just like we use their bases all the time.
Our planes are bigger faster and louder so I'm sure they complain about it over there while we think their stuff is just another commercial plane.
Trying to figure out "why Ft. Hood?" WH's or [DS] at Ft. Hood?
They’re both the same a/c type. Perhaps just coming in for maintenance like one of the AF-1 a/c.
Can't think of a thing smaller aircraft would need to travel to have maintained. They have maint. crews for everything.