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Souda Bay 2021 - MIL

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2 X USMC KC-130J leaving this afternoon : 169534 & 169533
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Re: Souda Bay 2021 - MIL

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CHQ Wednesday 10th March visitors,

1630 C-130H Hercules Saudi AF RSF9872 arr 06:16 from OETB dep 09:17 to OETB and arr again at 18:15 as RSF9873
484 C-130H Hercules Saudi AF RSF9874 arr 07:15 from OETB dep 08:52 to OETB and arr again at 17:43 as RSF9875
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RSF9872 was followed by RSF9874 C130H 478 about an hour later. both departed around 08.00z back to Tabuk.
At this moment 15.30z both just landed again at Souda, this time as RSF9873 (1630) and RSF9875 (478).
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I understand this is support for an upcoming deployment of Saudi F-15s here. (Thanks to Starman for the info on this).
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Correct, was mentioned in some Greece media recently, but without much details unfortunately
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KC-130J 3209 was there this week as well (10th?)
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A330 2401 visited today as RSF9876. Both inbound and outbound flights were above level 300, so it was not dragging any fighters AFAIK.
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Looks like the exercise/deployment is called Falcon Eye 1 and consists of 6 F-15C/D not F-15SA, although it might be a mix in the end.
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Finger trouble sorry.
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FR24 is showing RSF9885 C130H 483 inbound now from Tabuk.
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F-15s have arrived Saturday 13mar21, looks like six in total. Details to follow.
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2 squadron F-15C 213 and 214 identified on Saudi MOD pictures.
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sb_extra wrote: 13 Mar 2021, 16:01 2 squadron F-15C 209, 210, 213, 214 + F-15D 231 identified on Saudi MOD pictures. Missing one C.
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The 6th Eagle seems to be F-15C 215, to be confirmed.
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23.03: DUKE36 departure to Napoli. ADS-B shows 97-00105.
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