Increased demand for RC-135V/W Rivet Joint spy plane sorties in the Pacific has led the U.S. Air Force to create a new unit in Alaska to help manage those operations. From Joint Base ...
We’re used to hearing stuff and seeing images of fighter aircraft and bombers, but reconnaissance aircraft are much more discreet, and they don’t come out into the open all that often. Like, say, how ...
Pictured here: RIVET JOINT Landing at RAF Waddington FIRST BRITISH RIVET JOINT AIRCRAFT DELIVERED TO THE UK The first three RIVET JOINT signals intelligence aircraft has been delivered to the UK ahead ...
Here below you can see a similar photograph of a U.S. Marine Corps EA-6B Prowler electronic attack aircraft belonging to VMAQ-2 from MCAS Cherry Point, temporarily deployed to Incirilik Air Base, ...
A top secret RAF spy plane shown being threatened with destruction by a Russian fighter jet has been likened to an ‘electronic hoover’ because it sweeps up so much information. The giant ‘Rivet Joint’ ...
AN RAF jet that can “soak up” intel made history by flying the full length of NATO’s border for the first time ever. The milestone journey was undertaken by the advanced RC-135W Rivet Joint aircraft, ...
A Rivet Joint RC-135V aircraft on the tarmac at Offutt Air Force Base. Todd Clark, a retired Rivet Joint pilot, runs the two RC-135 cockpit simulators, which are about 10 years old and in use up to 12 ...
The U.S. Air Force intelligence aircraft have been using fake Mode-S codes, but this doesn’t give any real operational advantage. It just fuels some crazy conspiracy theory. On Sept. 7, 2020, a USAF ...
This system has been used to precisely target Russian equipment and forces operating on the frontlines of Ukraine. It has been an active, albeit indirect, participant in the war on behalf of Ukraine.
The U.S. Air Force’s Electronic Surveillance Planes Are Really Old. There’s No Rush To Replace Them.
A U.S. Air Force RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft assigned to the 763rd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron is refueled by a KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft over the U.S. Central Command area of ...
The Rivet Joint is shown on a mission to gather intelligence on Russian forces engaged in the all-out attack on Ukraine (Picture: Channel 4, Top Guns: Inside the RAF/Metro) A top secret RAF spy plane ...
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