Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast – Page 2

While its aircraft can be tracked online, the U.S. Air Force only worries about Tweets….

August 24, 2015 David Cenciotti 9

Bad OPSEC (Operations Security) exposed by Air War on ISIS? “Loose Tweets Destroy Fleets” is the slogan (based on the U.S. Navy’s WWII slogan “Loose Lips Sink Ships”) that the U.S. Air Force Central Command […]

A new Russian spyplane skirted the airspace of eastern Ukraine today

June 18, 2015 David Cenciotti 9

A new Russian Air Force Tu-214R could be tracked as it flew close to the border with Ukraine. Social media are going frenzy after a Russian Air Force Tu-214R was spotted and tracked on the […]

War in the Web 2.0 era: how Air Forces deal (or don’t) with Internet-based flight tracking tools

October 13, 2014 David Cenciotti 3

During Libya air war, you could track Canadian tankers circling over the Mediterranean Sea while they refueled allied planes heading to bomb Gaddafi. Three years later, nothing has changed. Flightradar24 and PlaneFinder are two famous […]

U.S. airborne communication plane could be tracked on the Web for 9 hours during air strike that killed Taliban leaders in Afghanistan

August 13, 2014 David Cenciotti 10

At least seven Taliban militants were killed following a NATO air raid Afghanistan. Noteworthy, a sign of the developing operation may have been a U.S. Air Force E-11A BACN plane orbiting over southeasern Ghazni province, […]

With U.S. airstrikes in progress airspace over Iraq has been closed to civilian flights

August 9, 2014 David Cenciotti 3

One of the busiest commercial routes went over Iraq. Until it was closed because of the U.S. air strikes against ISIS positions. Even if the situation in Iraq was already quite difficult, with Iraqi gunships […]