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With the withdrawal of the EP-3E at VQ-1; 159893 departed Souda for NASWI on Nov 6th for the last time. 161410 already departed home on Nov 1st.

Can you imagine being there during the (blue and SEA camo) F-4 era?

Normally there is a SAR detachment (used to be B212, could be a Puma these days) and the weekly C-130 from Elefsis (sometimes C-27J). No P-3 practicing circuits at all? The spot on the southside is great.

Ef charisto! That makes it only 3 different operational Phantoms spread over 3 days last week..

PS Canadian Pegasus and NATO Sentry left Aktion for home this morning. Today's support was an Italian AWACS Gulfstream and 1 French MRTT off the Cretan west coast, though I doubt they used the refueling capacity as it wasn't a very long mission that seemed to keep them in the Peloponnessos area. No ...

Andravida 11 Oct In the morning only 3 Swedes flew and performed a flyby (before the VIPs arrived..). The afternoon wave consisted of: 15108 F-16AM 15142 F-16AM 15107 F-16AM 15112 F-16AM 22-5682/LN F-35A 22-5685/LN F-35A 327/4-HZ 343/4-FK 34 JAS39C 33 JAS39C C.16-52/11-52 C.16-51/11-51 C.16-43/11-43...

Did anyone read off the 2 Phantoms that flew in the morning?

@typhoon3030, if it's the Tuesday you're referring to and you know the numbers so we'll, why don't you share your log here?

Nope, the Phantoms flew later in the morning, returning at noon.

Sorry I rechecked my serials, they are correct apart from the typo on the Hungarian.

Where were you standing, north or south side?

Sorry, there was a typo: 34 is the 1st in the four-ship Hungarians. 33 was #2.

Noted straight from the camera, apologies up front for any typos. This in sequence of recoveries, which is slightly different than the order in which they took off (not much). The lone Greek Rafale was a surprise. It seemed no emergency was declared, maybe it had trouble with the A2A refueling. Andr...

And the ramps are pretty full here, the comment about space might be correct.

Operating from their home base are Italian and French tankers, Romanian F-16s (not at Araxos it seems?) and the RAF RC-135 out of Souda. Today a USAF KC-135 is pinging in the same area. Not sure if it's also operating out of Aktion or home/elsewhere, may not be part of this exercise but the timing c...

SH-60(s) on the way from Rota. One of them could be 167781 (ADS-B).

ROF282 inbound (C-27J 2701) - ADS-B