The flyovers in DC are great & I’m glad we’re doing it.
It’s a *massive* effort, though. Ground crews, ATC, pilots, spare jets & crews as well as a host of others. Tankers to top everyone off. The logistics are wild.
To everyone that worked today to make it happen:
THANK YOU!
Offutt AFB, the heart of USSTRATCOM, made announcements that it's conducting exercises this week, and now also notifying the public via local news.
But the US military always does exercises. 24/7, 365. What's different about this one that they have to notify people?
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Pictures show the total loss of 81-0005, an E-3G “Sentry” Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) Aircraft with the U.S. Air Force’s 552nd Air Control Wing based out of Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, following yesterday’s Iranian ballistic missile and drone attack on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. The strike appears to have purposefully targeted the most important part of the E-3, that being rear of the aircraft which holds its rotating radar dome, containing several sensitive instruments including antennas for the E-3’s AN/APY-2 Surveillance Radar System.
Pictures show the total loss of 81-0005, an E-3G “Sentry” Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) Aircraft with the U.S. Air Force’s 552nd Air Control Wing based out of Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, following yesterday’s Iranian ballistic missile and drone attack on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. The strike appears to have purposefully targeted the most important part of the E-3, that being rear of the aircraft which holds its rotating radar dome, containing several sensitive instruments including antennas for the E-3’s AN/APY-2 Surveillance Radar System.
Video footage captures a total of seven MH-60M Black Hawks and five MH-47G Chinooks with the U.S. Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR), flying at low altitude over the Venezuelan capital of Caracas during Saturday morning’s operation to capture President Nicolás Maduro.