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#USAF RQ-4B global hawk up in the air this evening with a departure from sigonella NB - will keep an eye on this tomorrow morning. #FORTE10 #AE5421
December 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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#RAAF MQ-4C triton seen on the flight radar over the timor sea to the north of australia, 47K feet altitude, departure from RAAF base tindal. #ALBT01 #7CFA75

this isn't a usual spotting for me, with not typically looking in the area, interesting to see.
December 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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#USNavy P-8A poseidon seen on the flight radar operating and circling over the baltic sea, departure and return at keflavik iceland. #AE688A #BalticSea
December 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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#USNavy #RAF RAF RC-135W rivet joint / USN P-8A poseidon seen on the flight radar completing flights and operating over the centre of the black sea to the south of crimea, departures from RAF waddington and sigonella NB. #RRR7208 #AE6831 #43C39D
December 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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#MTCROCO EU sanctioned vessel moving through the irish sea currently to the north of northern ireland, UK coastguard seen taking a look.

vessel EU and UK sanctioned, previously involved in the transportation of Russian oil. #SRD226B #4080CC
December 7, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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#Russia #USNavy USN P-8A poseidon seen operating over the baltic sea and baltic states - russian air force an-148-100EA / tu-154M included, having departed kaliningrad russia and currently over the baltic sea. #14F110 #154C5C #AE6814 #Kaliningrad
December 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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#USNavy P-8A poseidon seen on the flight radar operating and circling over the baltic sea, departure and return at keflavik iceland. #AE688A #BalticSea
December 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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#USArmy US Army contracted CL650 ARTEMIS BRIO ISR aircraft seen on the flight radar having departing from constanta romania, aircraft having made its way north and circling / completing laps around kaliningrad russia, over the baltic sea and passing through the suwałki gap. #BRIO66 #A0EC98
December 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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#USNavy P-8A poseidon seen on the flight radar completing a flight a long the eastern border of finland with russia - always interesting seeing a mainly maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft used over land for ISR flights. #AE6814 #Finland
December 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target zelenskyy's arrival in dublin.

www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
December 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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#NATO #USAF USAF 2x KC-135R stratotanker's / NATO A330-243MRTT seen on the flight radar circling and operating over the gulf of bothnia, sweden and latvia. #MMF12 #Sweden #Latvia
December 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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#USAF looking back over the coast of venezuela from last night and early this morning, seeing multiple blips of USAF aircraft in the area - seen here E-3B sentry awacs and KC-46A pegasus tanker. #DANCR01 #AE11DB #AE63D3 #Venezuela
December 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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#USNavy P-8A poseidon seen on the flight radar circling and operating over the black sea - aircraft over the west coast, then passing out over the centre to the south of crimea, then heading east - departure from sigonella naval station italy. #AE688F #BlackSea
December 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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#USNavy MQ-4C triton seen on the flight radar circling and operating over the persian gulf, strait of hormuz and gulf of oman, 48K feet altitude, departure looks to be from al dhafra air base uae. #AE7814
December 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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#USNavy 5x P-8A poseidon's seen earlier today with departures and movements from jacksonville naval air station florida. #AE6797 #AE67FF #AE6851
December 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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#RAF 2x eurofighter typhoons / KC2 voyager seen on the flight radar - this looks to be the voyager dragging eurofighters east across europe - the typhoon looking to be returning looks like an incorrect predicted flight path. #RRR9911X #RRR9910 #RRR9912X
December 2, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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#RAF KC2 voyager / 2x eurofighter typhoons seen on the flight radar passing over israel and jordan returning to RAF akrotiri, these look to be part of operation shader. #RRR9961 #RRR9960X #RRR99590

#USAF P-8A poseidon included here operating over the east mediterranean sea coastlines. #AE67EA
December 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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#Zelensky #Ireland
December 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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#USNavy P-8A poseidon seen on the flight radar circling and operating over the norwegian sea, departure from evenes air station norway. #AE6789 #Norway
December 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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#USNavy P-8A poseidon seen on the flight radar operating and circling over the baltic sea and baltic states, departure and return at keflavik iceland. #AE68A2 #BalticSea
December 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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#USNavy MQ-4C triton seen on the flight radar earlier today having departed from naval station mayport in florida - the uav drone tracked off the coastline of mexico. #BLKCAT5 #AE7815

not my usual area to look, but thought this was an interesting movement.
December 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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#USNavy #Finland finnish air force learjet 35A / USN P-8A poseidon seen on the flight radar, the pair in the area of the gulf of finland and to the baltic sea to the south of finland. #W11 #46788D #AE6814
November 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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#USNavy 2x F/A-18F super hornet's seen on the flight radar, the pair close to the coastline of venezuela. #FY51 #FY52 #AE58C1 #AE1B65 #Venezuela
November 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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#USArmy US military contracted ARTEMIS II ISR aircraft seen on the flight radar throughout the day operating and completing back and forth flights out over the black sea, departure and return at constanta romania. #BRIO66 #A0EC98 #BlackSea
November 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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#KAIROS #VIRAT last tracked AIS data for both virat and kairos, two oil tankers of the russian shadow fleet, the pair targeted and hit by ukrainian naval drones.

both strikes close to the turkish black sea coastline, the pair believed to be empty and en route to the port of novorossiysk to load.
November 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM