#OpNeon - Twitter Hashtag

4 months ago

The Canadian public should know, to the extent our adversaries know, what the Canadian Armed Forces are doing in their name, as part of a UN mandate. There is no operational security that is compromised by knowing what kind of friction China is applying against #OpNEON flights.

steffanwatkins's tweet photo. The Canadian public should know, to the extent our adversaries know, what the Canadian Armed Forces are doing in their name, as part of a UN mandate. There is no operational security that is compromised by knowing what kind of friction China is applying against #OpNEON flights. https://t.co/QWhcz9jcfa

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Steffan Watkins 

@steffanwatkins

4 months ago

We already know the sophisticated optics used to monitor Chinese intercepts, thanks to CBS News last fall. DND claims those videos are classified, and releasing any videos from this year's intercepts would compromise operational security. 🙄 https://t.co/4e81ko55Lm #OpNEON

steffanwatkins's tweet photo. We already know the sophisticated optics used to monitor Chinese intercepts, thanks to CBS News last fall. DND claims those videos are classified, and releasing any videos from this year's intercepts would compromise operational security. 🙄

https://t.co/4e81ko55Lm #OpNEON https://t.co/2gX4aAIio5

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Steffan Watkins 

@steffanwatkins

4 months ago

🇨🇦🤝🇨🇳 The Canadian government should be more afraid of Canadians than the Chinese government, yet they instruct DND to kowtow to "diplomatic sensitivity", supress information that is not operationally sensitive, and bend the knee to Chairman Xi. #OpNEON

CTV News Vancouver @CTVVancouver

4 months ago

Canadian military silent on Chinese intercepts during latest patrol flights https://t.co/NWdVuLUY8U

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Steffan Watkins 

@steffanwatkins

4 months ago

🇳🇿 Operation Whio is the New Zealand Defence Force equivalent of 🇨🇦 Canadian Armed Forces Operation NEON, with the stated purpose of enforcing 🇺🇳 UN sanctions on North Korea 🇰🇵 #OpWHIO #OpNEON

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Steffan Watkins 

@steffanwatkins

4 months ago

🇦🇺 Operation Argos is the Australian Defence Force equivalent of 🇨🇦 Canadian Armed Forces Operation NEON, with the stated purpose of enforcing 🇺🇳 UN sanctions on North Korea 🇰🇵 #OpARGOS #OpNEON

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Steffan Watkins 

@steffanwatkins

4 months ago

or just the video https://t.co/eIyfWEg0vk #OpNEON

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Steffan Watkins 

@steffanwatkins

4 months ago

Anna Coren and Emmet Lyons “Inside a Canadian Mission to Track North Korean Ships as Chinese Jets Intercept,” CBS News, October 6, 2025 https://t.co/4e81ko55Lm #OpNEON

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Steffan Watkins 

@steffanwatkins

4 months ago

If today's 🇨🇦🤝🇺🇳 #OpNEON sortie is anywhere near the Chinese EEZ you can expect they will have been intercepted by Chinese/PLAAF interceptors 🇨🇳, but CJOC won't tell you that unless you're on the plane and witness it yourself. 🤷‍♂️

Steffan Watkins 

@steffanwatkins

4 months ago

April 9 (UTC) 🇨🇦 #RCAF CP-140 Aurora 140117 #C2B247 departed Kadena, Japan 🇯🇵 at ~00:40Z, likely for an ~8 hour #OpNEON sortie, if they keep to their usual pattern. https://t.co/6uADyPn7pu

steffanwatkins's tweet photo. April 9 (UTC)
🇨🇦 #RCAF CP-140 Aurora 140117 #C2B247 departed Kadena, Japan 🇯🇵 at ~00:40Z, likely for an ~8 hour #OpNEON sortie, if they keep to their usual pattern.

https://t.co/6uADyPn7pu https://t.co/jlvuMh8c0r

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Steffan Watkins 

@steffanwatkins

4 months ago

One of many things the 🇨🇦 Canadian Armed Forces would rather you not aprecite about their deployment to Kadena for #OpNEON is they didn't send a plane stationed in Comox on the West Coast, they flew 140117 to Kadena from Greenwood (to Comox 🇨🇦, Hawaii 🇺🇸, Guam 🇺🇸, then Kadena 🇯🇵). It took 12 days to get that plane from Greenwood 🇨🇦 to Kadena 🇯🇵 (March 10-22), they left Comox on March 17.

Steffan Watkins 

@steffanwatkins

4 months ago

April 8 (UTC) 🇨🇦 #RCAF CP-140 Aurora 140117 #C2B247 conducted a ~8 hour #OpNEON sortie departing Northeast from Kadena, Japan 🇯🇵 https://t.co/wxEJr44rFN

steffanwatkins's tweet photo. April 8 (UTC)
🇨🇦 #RCAF CP-140 Aurora 140117 #C2B247 conducted a ~8 hour #OpNEON sortie departing Northeast from Kadena, Japan 🇯🇵

https://t.co/wxEJr44rFN https://t.co/seNztfxPju

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Steffan Watkins 

@steffanwatkins

4 months ago

Yesterday's 🇨🇦 #RCAF CP-140 Aurora sortie appeared to be the 6th Canadian flight enforcing the United Nations Security Council resolutions on North Korea flown on this #OpNEON deployment. The foreign press have written ~12 articles about the operation; Canadian news media? Zero.

Steffan Watkins 

@steffanwatkins

4 months ago

April 6 (UTC) 🇨🇦 #RCAF CP-140 Aurora 140117 #C2B247 conducted a ~7.5 hour #OpNEON sortie departing Northeast from Kadena, Japan 🇯🇵 https://t.co/tjqqIUNHm7

steffanwatkins's tweet photo. April 6 (UTC)
🇨🇦 #RCAF CP-140 Aurora 140117 #C2B247 conducted a ~7.5 hour #OpNEON sortie departing Northeast from Kadena, Japan 🇯🇵

https://t.co/tjqqIUNHm7 https://t.co/QpsoxOP60t

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Steffan Watkins 

@steffanwatkins

4 months ago

April 6 (UTC) 🇨🇦 #RCAF CP-140 Aurora 140117 #C2B247 conducted a ~7.5 hour #OpNEON sortie departing Northeast from Kadena, Japan 🇯🇵 https://t.co/tjqqIUNHm7

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Steffan Watkins 

@steffanwatkins

4 months ago

While I don't know where exactly the 🇨🇦 #RCAF is currently on their #OpNEON sortie, I am positive the Chinese military 🇨🇳 knows, and if the RCAF have been flying near China, they've probably already been intercepted, but we won't proactively hear about that from the 🇨🇦 government

Steffan Watkins 

@steffanwatkins

4 months ago

March 27/28 (UTC) 🇨🇦 #RCAF CP-140 Aurora 140117 #C2B247 is currently somewhere over the East China Sea, Yellow Sea, or Philippine Sea on their 3rd sortie since they arrived in Kadena, Japan 🇯🇵 for this #OpNEON deployment.

steffanwatkins's tweet photo. March 27/28 (UTC)
🇨🇦 #RCAF CP-140 Aurora 140117 #C2B247 is currently somewhere over the East China Sea, Yellow Sea, or Philippine Sea on their 3rd sortie since they arrived in Kadena, Japan 🇯🇵 for this #OpNEON deployment. https://t.co/AYexKmHL9k

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Steffan Watkins 

@steffanwatkins

4 months ago

March 27/28 (UTC) 🇨🇦 #RCAF CP-140 Aurora 140117 #C2B247 is currently somewhere over the East China Sea, Yellow Sea, or Philippine Sea on their 3rd sortie since they arrived in Kadena, Japan 🇯🇵 for this #OpNEON deployment.

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Steffan Watkins 

@steffanwatkins

4 months ago

March 26/27 (UTC) 🇨🇦 #RCAF CP-140 Aurora 140117 #C2B247 conducted a ~6 hr #OpNEON sortie flying North from Kadena, Japan 🇯🇵

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Steffan Watkins 

@steffanwatkins

4 months ago

March 24 (UTC) 🇨🇦 #RCAF CP-140 Aurora 140117 #C2B247 conducted a ~7.5 hr #OpNEON sortie flying Northeast from Kadena, Japan 🇯🇵

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Steffan Watkins 

@steffanwatkins

4 months ago

The day the CP-140 arrives in Kadena 🇯🇵 for #OpNEON the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs consistently announces they are going to be there for weeks. It's rare that the Canadian press picks up the story at that time; DND won't tell the public so the press is at a disadvantage

steffanwatkins's tweet photo. The day the CP-140 arrives in Kadena 🇯🇵 for #OpNEON the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs consistently announces they are going to be there for weeks. It's rare that the Canadian press picks up the story at that time; DND won't tell the public so the press is at a disadvantage https://t.co/WrudBKM162

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Steffan Watkins 

@steffanwatkins

4 months ago

#OpNEON deployments happen at least during spring and fall, to monitor for DPRK 🇰🇵 UN sanctions violations. Visible to open sources, an 🇨🇦 #RCAF CC-177 Globemaster always arrives with their Gucci luggage first, then the CP-140 Aurora arrives a few days later via Hawaii 🍹.

steffanwatkins's tweet photo. #OpNEON deployments happen at least during spring and fall, to monitor for DPRK 🇰🇵 UN sanctions violations. Visible to open sources, an 🇨🇦 #RCAF CC-177 Globemaster always arrives with their Gucci luggage first, then the CP-140 Aurora arrives a few days later via Hawaii 🍹. https://t.co/w6QU9E6Hpm

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Steffan Watkins 

@steffanwatkins

4 months ago

🇨🇦 Since the Government of Canada couldn't care any less about the Canadian public being aware and informed about Canadian Armed Forces deployed operations globally, I will tell you what they're doing, and what the Chinese have known about for a long time already. #OpNEON

MOFA of Japan

@MofaJapan_en

4 months ago

From late March to early April, Royal Canadian Air Force will dispatch CP-140 to conduct its 15th monitoring and surveillance activities by aircraft against illicit maritime activities, including ship-to-ship transfers with North Korean vessels prohibited by UNSCRs. Japan works closely with relevant countries and international organizations, including Canada. #Canada Photo: Royal Canadian Air Force long-range patrol aircraft CP-140 (Source: Ministry of National Defence of Canada) https://t.co/I9tzgHghxA

MofaJapan_en's tweet photo. From late March to early April, Royal Canadian Air Force will dispatch CP-140 to conduct its 15th monitoring and surveillance activities by aircraft against illicit maritime activities, including ship-to-ship transfers with North Korean vessels prohibited by UNSCRs. Japan works closely with relevant countries and international organizations, including Canada. #Canada
Photo: Royal Canadian Air Force long-range patrol aircraft CP-140 (Source: Ministry of National Defence of Canada)

https://t.co/I9tzgHghxA

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Steffan Watkins 

@steffanwatkins

4 months ago

Number of news articles about the current 🇨🇦 #OpNEON deployment to Kadena Air Base 🇯🇵 ➙ 🇰🇷 South Korean press (4) ➙ 🇯🇵 Japanese press (5) ➙ 🇹🇼 Taiwanese press (3) ➙ 🇨🇦 Canadian press (0) 🤷‍♂️

Christy Somos @C_Somos

4 months ago

Do you know how ridiculous it is that we find out about Canadian military deployments from foreign press versus regular briefings from DND/CA?

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Steffan Watkins 

@steffanwatkins

6 months ago

🇨🇦⚓ RCN warship HMCS Charlottetown (MMSI:316130000) departed NAS Mayport on February 8 on their 6 month Op HORIZON / Op NEON deployment. Their PAO appears to be posting to Insta once a week, with a week delay. https://t.co/hoS79keh0E #HMCSCharlottetown #OpHORIZON #OpNEON

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