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unc70

(6,492 posts)
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 08:24 AM Jun 2025

Two KC-135 Stratotankers over Israel heading east

Don't know who or what they will be refueling. Probably important.

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Two KC-135 Stratotankers over Israel heading east (Original Post) unc70 Jun 2025 OP
They just disappeared from tracking sites unc70 Jun 2025 #1
I was looking for them on ADSB Exchange. mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2025 #4
Our troops in the area are all set if the U S gets involved. pwb Jun 2025 #2
THis does not bode well. ProudMNDemocrat Jun 2025 #3
Satellite images appear to show gab13by13 Jun 2025 #5
We've been conducting air operations against ISIS over Syria and Iraq for years Abnredleg Jun 2025 #6
PYTHN11, K35R is over western Iraq now Wednesdays Jun 2025 #7

unc70

(6,492 posts)
1. They just disappeared from tracking sites
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 08:30 AM
Jun 2025

I believe they crossed into Jordan with radio silence. They ere coming from Crete.

mahatmakanejeeves

(68,221 posts)
4. I was looking for them on ADSB Exchange.
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 08:33 AM
Jun 2025

They were off the charts. Did you get hexcodes?

And good morning.

pwb

(12,456 posts)
2. Our troops in the area are all set if the U S gets involved.
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 08:32 AM
Jun 2025

Hegseth has issued our troops in the area sand bags to protect from missiles.

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,615 posts)
3. THis does not bode well.
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 08:33 AM
Jun 2025

They can be refueling Israeli jets, which in a sense INVOLVES the US in a war NOT of our making.

This is in violation of Congress's power to declare war. But then, we all know TACO Don circumvents Congress at every turn, and they LET him. The Republicans in Congress are COMPLICIT in this. Make them own it!

gab13by13

(31,206 posts)
5. Satellite images appear to show
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 08:39 AM
Jun 2025

we may have evacuated our largest Air Force base in Qatar.

Abnredleg

(1,245 posts)
6. We've been conducting air operations against ISIS over Syria and Iraq for years
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 09:37 AM
Jun 2025

as have the British. It may indicate an expansion of the air war or it may be routine operations.

Wednesdays

(21,585 posts)
7. PYTHN11, K35R is over western Iraq now
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 10:02 AM
Jun 2025

At first it appeared to be heading straight toward Tehran, but now it appears to be just circling over western Iraq.

On edit: now it's disappeared from the map. My money is on it having landed in Iraq, which explains the circling.

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