Illustrative image. (U.S. Air Force/Senior Airman Tyler Woodward)
The United States Air Force has deployed an advanced RC-135V Rivet Joint signal intelligence aircraft to Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, amid rising tensions with Iran.
The aircraft from Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska on January 27 and stopped at RAF Mildenhall before arriving at Al Udeid.
The RC-135W is the standard airborne signal intelligence platform for the U.S. Air Force. It was developed by a number of companies, including General Dynamics, Lockheed, LTV, E-Systems and L3 Technologies.
The aircraft’s sensor suite allows the mission crew to detect, identify and geolocate signals throughout the electromagnetic spectrum. The mission crew can then forward gathered information in a variety of formats to a wide range of consumers via Rivet Joint’s extensive communications suite.
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Earlier this month, U.S. President Trump threatened military action if Iran killed protesters or carried out mass executions of prisoners, but he backed down soon after, claiming the Islamic Republic halted the hangings of 800 detainees. Still, he ordered the deployment of additional U.S. military assets into the Middle East, including aircraft, air defenses, in addition to an aircraft carrier and several warships.
According to a recent Reuters report, Trump is now weighing options against Iran that include targeted strikes on security forces and leaders to inspire protesters, with the aim of creating conditions for “regime change”.
The deployment of the RC-13V at this time suggests that Trump is moving closer towards ordering an attack, although a decision may still be a few weeks away.
A similar aircraft began operating off the coast of Venezuela just weeks before Trump ordered a special operation to capture President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, from Caracas.
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all americunt have special sensors to attract taliban jizz in our anuz
my my prediction for the war: iran loses badly at the beginning, many of its leaders will be killed at the beginning. it will lose some territory too. probably even a so-called regime change at the beginning, with internal chaos/confusion. but then the real war starts and usa will be removed from the middle east, completely and forever.
trump does it anyway, because he is stupid enough to fall for netanyahu. he is also extorted by mossad/netanyahu with thr epstein files. he will go in history as the most stupid president of the usa.
does it rely on starlink? now that would be funny if the answer is yes and the satellite goes down.
time for iran to make sure the rc-135 needs an extra few million rivets to fly again.
donald trump’s distraction. gpt-5.3 shall save us from this regime.
zionists will be pounding sand again
i gave you “11” hasbrat but the langley comment editor for s-f took another one away… yet again.
we can take down the mullahs any time we want…heheheh
supershabbos chumpo is committing political suicide. soon the maga retards will be paying %20 a gallon. he will get his arse kicked at the mid terms and get impeached again. whoops apocalypse! yet another fine mess the jooz have gotten me into!!! heheheheheh
whether you like him or not trump doesn’t play around at all.
who would think a tv talk show host could be so imperial?
hahahaha oh you’re so up yourself who. would have thought they would use a clown to lead ukraine into their trap? a clown to lead the world into ww3??? well look at hitler he failed his high school final exams, not just once but twice and had to do the whole year again at night school to graduate high school allegedlyb
it really doesn’t mean a whole lot that the usadmin has done this or that. the us is heading for the consequences of the last century of warmongering. the people of the us are vaguely aware of the drop in the standard of living. in response the usadmins banned household gardens and denied anyone vital vitamens during ‘covid’. the truth is out there. one just needs to believe what one sees and disregard what one hears.
esp when reading your opinion imo
the usadmin can do what they want, but it make no difference. the us are a failing empire. nothing can stop this. the decisive decisions will be done with missiles and not aircraft carriers. there will be no us grunts on the ground in iran and since the usadmin ‘regime change’ has failed several times, it will be down to missiles. who reaches who first? i say the iranian gov’t is way ahead.
when missiles start to make the us homeland, good luck spinning that one.
look petey ramses american empire narrative for vanyas trolling along with a menage eg trois of names in your little red wagon for lenin, your as obvious as the so called votes from the one man band called sf. imo allegedly