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Military Activity "Unusual"

DirtyDevil69

DirtyDevil69

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Im putting this here so we can report "Unusual" Military Plane Movement and ground movement. Now ive had to decided if i wanted to put this on the board but i decided im going to. If its something big, do not post it, it may put National Security for your country at risk. But post little things like more activity at this military base or at this airfield or this military base is locked down. Stuff like that, little but not Dangerous to National Security.
 
An 'A' for effort, but judging from the way folks react to normal civil air traffic, and the simple fact that the vast majority couldn't tell a B-52 from the goodyear blimp, it's probably not going to be much help. Like one report of "f-18's, flying out of McConnell AFB", can you spot what's probably wrong with that statement. I recall one tin foil hat nation panic cause a few years ago by the PPCLI's equipment loaded onto a freight train for movement to Ft.Irwin for an exercise, which rapidly became a 'UN invasion force of unknown origin'. some how managing to miss the licence plates on every single vehicle bearing the legend 'Canada', flanked in red maple leaf's.
With out some sort of basic recognition training, and knowledge of what a 'normal' movement looks like, it just ends up contributing obscuration to the 'fog of war'.
But lets see...
 
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An 'A' for effort, but judging from the way folks react to normal civil air traffic, and the simple fact that the vast majority couldn't tell a B-52 from the goodyear blimp, it's probably not going to be much help. Like one report of "f-18's, flying out of McConnell AFB", can you spot what's probably wrong with that statement. I recall one tin foil hat nation panic cause a few years ago by the PPCLI's equipment loaded onto a freight train for movement to Ft.Irwin for an exercise, which rapidly became a 'UN invasion force of unknown origin'. some how managing to miss the licence plates on every single vehicle bearing the legend 'Canada', flanked in red maple leaf's.
With out some sort of basic recognition training, and knowledge of what a 'normal' movement looks like, it just ends up contributing obscuration to the 'fog of war'.
But lets see...
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Yea but lets hope at least something useful does come up, put our heads together, you know?
 
i heard a low flying jet powered aircraft yesterday. We have commercial planes all the time and I've been near AFBs and MCAS and it sound more like a military aircraft like the speed, the altitude and how long you could hear it differed from commercial aircraft. I heard it 3 times and I think it was probably a cargo aircraft
It was dark and I didn't see any lights and neither did my mom
 
OK. I'm game, and its raining, so I don't feel like working on the chicken's fall out shelter... :roll:

Where? What type? Which branch, squadron? Training flight, normal movements, or a special mission?
Military or civil?
You see? While I admire the enthusiasm, this datum simply says 'an airplane flew by', somewhere in the CONUS(?) last night.
Now, if forty people posted something like...
'Geez! there have been 100 C-17's, C-5's and C-130's flew into Ft. Campbell, hung around for 45 minutes, and blasted off en mass'
or
'Every stinking B-2 and B-1 and Tanker in the inventory just cranked up and went hammering out at 50 second intervals!'
That's an unusual movement.
If you are interested in a observation network, or functioning as an observation post, then there are some basic tools.
The Janes aircraft, warships and armoured vehicle recognition field guides(Pocket sized, comprehensive, look in second hand book stores if you don't want to buy new), an air band radio, some WAC charts of your local, the T.C. or FAA pilots supplement book, and track down some of the on-line spotters communities for tips and training.
A Night scope is a great help(cheap, now a days- mine are soviet surplus!) Good binoculars, a field note book. Learn how to file a usable report, like:
(as per FM 7-90)
'SALUTE'

(S)Size of force
(A)Activity
(L)Location
(U)Unit
(T)Time
(E)Equipment

Which is a great report format.
Lastly. Its a great hobby, though most folks would think it a little nutty. That's why 'spotters' are often called 'Anoraks' or 'nutters'.
But don't let that stop you.

And Watch the Sky!
 
Upshot said:
OK. I'm game, and its raining, so I don't feel like working on the chicken's fall out shelter... :roll:

Where? What type? Which branch, squadron? Training flight, normal movements, or a special mission?
Military or civil?
You see? While I admire the enthusiasm, this datum simply says 'an airplane flew by', somewhere in the CONUS(?) last night.
Now, if forty people posted something like...
'Geez! there have been 100 C-17's, C-5's and C-130's flew into Ft. Campbell, hung around for 45 minutes, and blasted off en mass'
or
'Every stinking B-2 and B-1 and Tanker in the inventory just cranked up and went hammering out at 50 second intervals!'
That's an unusual movement.
If you are interested in a observation network, or functioning as an observation post, then there are some basic tools.
The Janes aircraft, warships and armoured vehicle recognition field guides(Pocket sized, comprehensive, look in second hand book stores if you don't want to buy new), an air band radio, some WAC charts of your local, the T.C. or FAA pilots supplement book, and track down some of the on-line spotters communities for tips and training.
A Night scope is a great help(cheap, now a days- mine are soviet surplus!) Good binoculars, a field note book. Learn how to file a usable report, like:
(as per FM 7-90)
'SALUTE'

(S)Size of force
(A)Activity
(L)Location
(U)Unit
(T)Time
(E)Equipment

Which is a great report format.
Lastly. Its a great hobby, though most folks would think it a little nutty. That's why 'spotters' are often called 'Anoraks' or 'nutters'.
But don't let that stop you.

And Watch the Sky!
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I'm in Richmond KY if you're talking to me it was 0036 in the morning. There were no lights to see and I could not make out the type of aircraft. It was not a prop so it may have been a couple of C-5s. This is unusual because we do not get this type of aircraft here. We see Blackhawks, Little Birds, Chinooks, Apaches and just recently Viper helos and V-22s which is also odd because are depot does Chemical weapons storage and destruction, EOD, refurbishment of small arms and arty, helicopter matainence and parts for various vehicles like the Stryker. I know how to identify US and some allied aircraft but it was too dark to see it. This plane would have been no more than 5k in altitude and no lower than 2 to make as much noise as it did. Skeet that I can't help more
 
By lights I mean on the plane itself
 
And our depot is the Bluegrass Army depot
 
Doesn't seem terribly alarming then, in that context.
 
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Doesn't seem terribly alarming then, in that context.
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Okay sorry I wasn't sure it just wasn't usual here And they were heading SE to NW
 
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