A USAF RC-135V/W Rivet Joint disconnects from a USAF KC-10 Extender after receiving fuel near Iraq on Dec. 5, 2016. By Senior Airman Tyler Woodward.
On October 22, an RC-135W Rivet Joint reconnaissance and an E-11A communication relay aircraft of the United States Air Force (USAF) were was spotted by aviation observers while conducting an unusual mission near Syria’s border.
Both aircraft flew off the coast of Syria and Lebanon for several hours. While the E-11A stayed over the Eastern Mediterranean, the RC-135 went on to fly along the Syrian border with Jordan and Iraq. The aircraft were likely spying on the two main Russian bases on the Syrian coast, Hmeimim Air Base and Tartus Naval Base.
currently around Syria
1 x E11 comms node (11-9355)
1 x tanker (57-1439)
1 x RC135W (62-4130) pic.twitter.com/VEXnkCiRdn— avi scharf (@avischarf) October 22, 2022
The RC-135 W is the USAF’s standard airborne SIGINT [Signal Intelligence] platform. The aircraft’s sensor suite allows the mission crew to detect, identify and geolocate signals throughout the electromagnetic spectrum.
From its side, the E-11A carries the USAF’s BACN [Battlefield Airborne Communications Node] airborne communications relay and gateway system. The BACN enables real-time information flow across the battlespace between similar and dissimilar tactical data link and voice systems through relay, bridging, and data translation in line-of-sight and beyond-line-of-sight situations.
An E-11 Battlefield Airborne Communications Node sits on the flightline at Kandahar Airfield (KAF), Afghanistan, Aug. 1, 2017. By Capt. Keenan Kunst.
The E-11A was apparently relaying information gathered by the RC-135, which patrolled a long strip of Syria’s border, to the USAF command.
The unusual USAF reconnaissance mission came just a day after reports of two cargo flights between Hmeimim Air Base in Syria and Russia. The U.S. is likely trying to figure out what was moved from Russia to Syria, or the other way. Washington has been keeping a very close eye on the Russian military grouping in Syria since the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine.
Shoot it down.
They could just have Israel do the dirty work. That way Russia will apologize for putting their men in the way of Israeli missiles.
If you want a nuclear chain reaction, do it. Russia/Putin tries to avoid any action to give NATO/US an excuse to launch a nuclear attack. On the other hand, the Brits and Yankees will try everything to tease the bear. I suspect a third party like Israel, to create a false flag to have either the Yankees or Russia to launch a nuclear attack. We shouldn’t forget 911, the Mossad was behind this crime.
Hamas/ Hezbollah or some unknwokn “terrorist cell” could take responsibility for that.
The zionist filth that occupy Palestine are the only terrorist scum in the area.
Why would they launch nukes because of losing a plane?
Only cowards including you are afraid of a nuclear war threat. Mutual assured destruction isn’t mutual anymore if one side is afraid. I guess all the cowards like you prefer to die slowly by hunger, being tortured or burned to death than being vaporized by a nuke. But before all that, you get to watch your wife and children get raped and done unspeakable things to. Ok I know you think war will never happen to where you’re at. But if the US can cause conflict anywhere, surely your land isn’t safe and other country can also cause conflict on your land.
It’s just a bullshit world where we spend most of our manpower and resources to build weapons to kill each others. If we can’t share this planet peacefully, we should settle our beefs once and for all. After that, we can rebuild this world.
Your life isn’t more valuable than the life of any people who’s currently suffering in a war zone. I hope you and all the selfish cowards get the same fate as those unfortunate civilians. Then you will wish that you get vaporized by a nuclear blast instead.
I agree, you jews were behind it sheky. bet your weekend was full of head banging walls, shooting escaped mohammad monkeys and getting that broom removed.
Mazel tov
They sent spy planes near NK until NK shot one of them down. And then they stopped sending them for a while… but Russia allows them to fly near their bases in Crimea directly supporting ukro attacks, so why not in Syria…
That was over 50 years ago.
Pootin is a cowards and needs to be replaced now by Mr Lavrov or the PM
Posseidon flew over Romania while Moskwa was hit.
AWACS flew over Romania while Ukropistanese break through Russian defense… and captured a lot of Russian stuff.
Syria is not so much a concern for the EU and USA, but Russian territories are…
Those who rule the world must show everywhere that they rule it.
There is no such place of no concern for a empire.
Until it gets a bleeding nose being the deplorable utterly useless inbecilic cowards they all are,FIXED!
new woke nazis are being obliterated on all fronts,where is validated facxtual evidence that proves gayto are gaining without losing tens of thousands with this soo called nazi offensives other than hit civilians?
they are a legitimate target because they provide info to the terrorist yankees, zionists and the clown jewlensky. shootthem down by sending a drone in collison……..kaboom…..yipiajee !!!
Usa She is spying on Russia at Syria because WHY?
Usa afraid Russia will give to Iran ( atomic NUKLEER bomb) because iran gived Russia over 100 KAMiKHAZE Drones .. exchange process
Looks like the US is about to kick Putin out of Syria right before they kick Russia out of Ukraine. Putin playing nice guy in with Israel in Syria and not conducting total war in Ukraine will be his undoing.
By playing nice with Israel Putin is also playing nice with the US as we all know who runs that country.
Plaiying nice is how you beat selow bigger gutless kuntz in fistfights! typo coward like comment!
Are you retarded ?
looks like you need a reality check,there is no future in fascism and its lgbtq,dudster,harden the fk up!
Looks like Australia aintr into gibberish lgbtq/nazi/jewhadi take over of palestine,trump/cia is the loser!
Pootin refusal to ok Russian reaction to the zio terrorist USA actions will spell doom in the near future for their forces in the region. Pootin needs to be replaced by Mr Lavrov of the PM…NOW!!!?
Russia is moving nuclear weapons to Syria so the racist supremacist global Jewish Judeo nazi satanic slave empire dictatorship will know its capital Israel will be the first to be vaporized if it orders its conquered NATO and USSA slaves to attack Russia with conventional or nuclear weapons.
Why not shoot it the f*** down, like ISISrael did- from the cover of a passenger plane?…
Russia should react symetrically sometimes, to show Force!
The angloZionaZi empire of filth is like an old whore, intent on keeping its beat but no longer able to offer the wares to her johns that her pimp promises. Stretch marks are obvious all over the old tart at this late stage of the game but try telling that to the old girl living on the “glories” of past terror. USSA, the brainless, chosenite Golem does its damnedest to “protect” the abomination in apartheid, occupied Palestine but we all know that when the fiat filth Saudi Mercan dollah gets flushed (ask OPEC already) in the coming months the evil welfare warfare khaZar abomination will not survive without forced tribute from impoverished USSAN tax cattle.
These NATO and US posts in Syria collaborate with Israel against Syria, similarly they also collaborate with the Ukrainian regime against Russia. This is the NATO and US evil nature to create chaos in the world.