Posted on 06/29/2020 8:26:10 AM PDT by Tai_Chung
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Aircraft spotting sites noticed at least four U.S. spy planes and one refueling aircraft flying to the south and southwest of Taiwan on Monday (June 29).
At 8:32 a.m. on Monday morning, aircraft spotting Twitter account Callsign: CANUK78 spotted a US Navy Lockheed EP-3E ARIES II electronic warfare and reconnaissance aircraft flying over the Bashi Channel just off the southern coast of Taiwan bound for the South China Sea, Eluanbi. At 8:53 a.m. aircraft spotting Twitter account Golf9 spotted a Boeing RC-135U reconnaissance aircraft taking off from Kadena Air Force base in Japan and passing over the Bashi Channel on its way to the South China Sea.
One hour later, at 9:52 p.m., Callsign: CANUK78 sighted a US Navy Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft also flying over the Bashi Channel on its way to the South China Sea. Nearly one hour after that, at 10:43 a.m., Golf9 reported a Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker refueling jet flying over the South China Sea, just to the southwest of Taiwan.
At 11:27 a.m., Callsign: CANUK78 spotted an RC-135 with a different registration number than the one spotted earlier by Golf9 circling over the South China Sea just to the southwest of Taiwan, a site where Chinese fighters and bombers have been known to frequent in recent weeks.
I’m glad they didn’t see any B-2s.
Those will be a special surprise!
Not as much of a surprise as the Leopard.
It won’t be spotted at all!
Thats a new one
Good Morning all ChiComs listening to US Navy/USAF tunes, have a great day.
President Trump wishes you a good morning and have a happy day.
That’s the 4 we want you to see.
“... prowling ...” tells me which side wrote the story.
The important thing is no one saw the real intelligence
planes.
These planes can take pictures. But that can be done much higher up as well. These planes are listening. They are gathering lots of data from anything sending a signal through the airwaves. They are judging movement and traffic of everything. And they are sending it straight up to satellites.
Yes, the speculation is that they are tracking Chinese subs.
My guess is that Northrop-Grumman’s new RQ-180 stealthy drone is operating from Andersen AFB from Guam, launched at night to fly at over 60,000 feet to monitor the South China Sea.
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