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Flight of Boeing E-6B Mercurys amid Trump's coronavirus announcement 'purely coincidental': Strategic Command
Planespotters reported that one Boeing E-6B Mercury was flying off the East Coast and another above Oregon (www.foxnews.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
- A bit over-dramatic,started by someone tweeting in Hawaii. As far as I know, it's quite common for E-6Bs to operate (near USA coasts) at any time.
Either way, so what? The military is doing things all around the world all the time. No big deal.
They wanted to be seen on radar - an assurance of safety
Agreed - some of the DoD aircraft could be trailing extremely long wire antennas. So yes, for safety should be visible to ATC during routine operations, anywhere near commercial air traffic.
There ya go been doing it for years never caught anything so far, ho hum
And how would that do any good as they are tagged with no ID as to what they are only numbers and letters. And yes they are quite common as there was one about two months ago shooting approaches to the Klamath Falls airport.
Fox link? I don't think so ........