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German F4s have now been relieved of QRA and are switching to squawk their normal training.
Looks like the Bombers just skirted German Airspace.

For the past 2 hours, RAF Typhoons have been shadowing Russian bombers in the North Sea from up near the Shetlands down into the south. VC-10 Tansor 4ZO60 is refuelling the RAF jets. Now, German F4s (HG01A/B) have been scrambled and are now squawking NATO QRA 1304/1305 to intercept the bombers. Thos...

Does anyone know where CHILL42/JOSA42 ended up?
Did it hit a range in Spain or somewhere in the Med Sea or did it just turn around like the B-2A's did the other month?

Looks to be a Satcom antenna to me.

This would have been an MC-130.
A lot of the time, MC-130s and AC-130s will use REACH 10## callsigns.
For example, Two MC130H's scheduled to AR with Quid 87 today were Reach 1015 and 1016 over the Atlantic heading east.
At FL150 as in your log, this confirms a -130.

Rich C

TREK is used for Joint Transport missions by any type of Transport aircraft (C-130, C-17, C-5) on Pacific transport sorties. It doesn't matter where too, they use it for Australian, Thailand, Japan, Guam, all over the Pacific. RIYAL was only used by KC-135s during Allied Force on Air Refuelling miss...

You have some conflictions in your SBS files.
E-4B is not a Sentry. It is a NAOC (NACP)
A Sentry is the E-3

Also RC-135 is not a stratotanker, it has no tanking capability. The RC-135V is a "Rivet Joint".

TRAIN callsign is currently hard working in the Middle East. The squadron had a swap over for Christmas and so they routed through the UK homeward bound.

The HF "FAC" was i believe AUTOCAT transmitted by an AWACS to all players including the ground HQ and ASOC in charge of air assets conducting the CAS. 4739 as well as 7630 were both used for this with several hours of FAC on 4739 (another USN freq) of which i monitored back then during the...

I saw this also but at the time the CC-144 was over the UK, the CFC3918 was over the Atlantic talking with Shanwick.

This was flying at FL330 so usually a bit higher than the CC-130s fly which is generally at FL220-FL280

This was either a CC-177 (C17) or a CC-150.
The callsign suffix confused me too, as this is usually a CC-130H but going by the Flight Level, it seems a bit higher.

OTIS 81 was a KC-130J of VMGR-252. This is the squadrons primary callsign and can be frequently heard transiting or landing within the UK.

These frequencies are just normal HF-GCS (formerly SCOPE) frequencies for everyday usage of any USAF, USN or NATO aircraft and vessels. Not much to do with B-52 operations apart from the odd B-52 will call up while mainly flying within the USA. Anderson AFB (not Guam AFB) has a remote station linked...

VAMPIRE 12 Flight of two B-1Bs cancelled while flying through the Westcott Corridor due to problems and turned around and went back to Moron AB.

This was an E-3D Sentry from Waddington.