It could be a routine training mission, but I've never caught these both up at some time:
Cobra Ball: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae01d7
Rivet Joint: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae01c5 (note: callsign HOOVR43 - as in a Hoover vacuum sucking everything up)
Anything traveling speed of sound over ny pa border saturday? Huge boom could not be explained
HOOVR43 looks like it's now doing lot's of touch/stop and go landings in Kansas City for night currency training (maybe). That plane's got a big snout to see over, kek.
Good catch. Also 3 or 4 P8s up too.
Thanks. There's an E6 making an interesting line out to the Atlantic and back it looks like: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae0412
What kind of planes are those?
They are both RC135s recon/surveillance planes. Lots of electronics. One is specialized for SINGINT. They are based with the 55th Wing out of Offbut AFB in Nebraska.
The RC135S Cobra Ball
The RC135V/W Rivet Joint
Both are back up tonight:
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae01d7
Looks like they were doing training runs over Nebraska in prep for a border mission.
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/usaf-spy-plane-runs-sigint-operation-near-cabo-us-preps-potential-cartel-fight
Yep. The Rivet Joint is up right now. I've never seen a SIGINT plane in the Gulf of California. Good time to be a planefag.
Spy planes.