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Three armed F-22 fighters launched Sunday from Honolulu at request of FAA
Star Advertiser ^
| 06/14/2021
| William Cole
Posted on 06/15/2021 5:46:20 AM PDT by ScubaDiver
Officials today would not disclose why three missile-armed Hawaii Air National Guard F-22 fighters were scrambled Sunday afternoon for an “irregular air patrol” requested by the Federal Aviation Administration.
“The 154th Fighter Wing launched two F-22 Raptors from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam at approximately 4 p.m.,” Pacific Air Forces said in an email. “A third was launched at approximately 5 p.m.”
The Hickam-based Air Force command added that the FAA requested that U.S. Indo-Pacific Command “conduct an irregular air patrol and the situation resolved, prompting the fighters and a KC-135 Stratotanker (a refueling plane) to return to base. We cannot discuss further specifics of the situation.”
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: f22; faa; ufo
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FAA and Air Force are being weirdly cryptic. This kind of thing happens with some frequency and those events are generally explained; Russia bomber/recon aircraft flew too close, unruly passenger, pilot violated NOTAM area, etc. On this, nothing.
Not only did they launch three fighters, which is really unusually, but they launched a KC-135 as well for refueling support.
To: ScubaDiver
Probably going after all those White Supremacists SloJoe has been carping about.
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posted on
06/15/2021 5:48:19 AM PDT
by
LIConFem
(Bring a Commie to room temperature for Mommy)
To: LIConFem
White Supremacist aliens, perhaps?
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posted on
06/15/2021 5:49:06 AM PDT
by
LIConFem
(Bring a Commie to room temperature for Mommy)
To: ScubaDiver
50 foot Tic-Tac invasion?
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posted on
06/15/2021 5:49:31 AM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
To: ScubaDiver
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posted on
06/15/2021 5:49:41 AM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: ScubaDiver
Better to play it safe than repeat 7 December again...
(I'd love to see F-22s vs Zeros though.)
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posted on
06/15/2021 5:51:51 AM PDT
by
Jonah Hex
To: ScubaDiver
Perhaps the coded message sent the FDR whitehouse finally got decoded.
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posted on
06/15/2021 5:52:36 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
To: ScubaDiver
“Not only did they launch three fighters, which is really unusually, but they launched a KC-135 as well for refueling support.”
Very possibly this was nothing but a planned surprise alert such as is conducted by the USAF on regularly irregular basis. They are conducted to test reaction time and mission efficiency.
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posted on
06/15/2021 5:54:35 AM PDT
by
billyboy15
(')
To: ScubaDiver
“U.S. Indo-Pacific Command” the new United States Pacific Command.
To: Jonah Hex
To: Sparky1776
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posted on
06/15/2021 5:57:45 AM PDT
by
Laslo Fripp
(The Sybil of Free Republic)
To: ScubaDiver
Do Air National Guard United units actually have F-22s?
To: ScubaDiver
China getting uppity...........................
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posted on
06/15/2021 6:02:03 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy............. Nightbirde)
To: ScubaDiver
Cue the “I’m not sayin’ it was aliens” pic….
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posted on
06/15/2021 6:03:22 AM PDT
by
jdsteel
("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
To: ScubaDiver
Most likely the FAA lost contact with an airliner transiting from the mainland to Hawaii, and wanted the escort to ensure that another 9/11 wasn’t going down.
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posted on
06/15/2021 6:03:53 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: billyboy15
Then why announce it was requested by the FAA
If it was routine?
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posted on
06/15/2021 6:04:18 AM PDT
by
RWGinger
(Does anyone else really )
To: ScubaDiver
Were Barry and big mike flying to Hawaii?
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posted on
06/15/2021 6:04:28 AM PDT
by
PhiloBedo
(You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
To: ScubaDiver
I saw two A10s escort an airplane to an airport for flying over a restricted site after 911. The pilot was an air traffic controler.
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posted on
06/15/2021 6:07:04 AM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: Flag_This
Yes. I’m not sure how many squadrons in total. But, I know that in addition to HI, the VA AirGuard also has a squadron at Langley. These were F-15 squadrons before making the transition to Raptors.
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posted on
06/15/2021 6:15:05 AM PDT
by
ScubaDiver
(Reddit refugee.)
To: ScubaDiver
Trump issued a short-notice flight plan for Hawaii to troll gov. Ige, then pulled the flight plan.
/s
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posted on
06/15/2021 6:15:06 AM PDT
by
logi_cal869
(-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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