Battlefield Airborne Communications Node

The U.S. Air Force’s E-11 BACN Aircraft Is So Unique, You Can Only Find It In One Place: Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan

November 26, 2018 David Cenciotti 0

Commonly known as Battlefield Airborne Communications Node, or BACN, the E-11A is a U.S. Air Force aircraft that provides unparalleled communications capabilities to coalition forces on the ground and aircraft in the air. “There is […]

EQ-4 Global Hawk Drone Deployed to UAE with a Battlefield Airborne Communications Node Payload Reaches 20K Flight Hours

February 16, 2018 David Cenciotti 6

One of the RQ-4B Global Hawk drone converted into EQ-4 has logged 20,000 flight hours operating as a “flying gateway” for other aircraft involved in the air war on ISIS. On Feb. 13, one of […]

Two NASA’s WB-57F Jets Are About To Chase The Total Solar Eclipse. Here is How And Where.

August 21, 2017 David Cenciotti 0

NASA is about to launch two retrofitted WB-57F aircraft to follow the shadow of the moon. The last of a long series of interesting missions… NASA still operates three WB-57Fs, configured for air sampling and […]

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 […]

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 […]