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There are so many things wrong with what the #USAF is doing here, that are very much not evident to the casual observer.
1) The RC-135 has changed its unique transponder number to 730000 (hex), an Iranian assigned code. So, the USAF is impersonating an Iranian plane.https://twitter.com/GDarkconrad/status/1146347262861336577 …
2) As @GDarkconrad pointed out, this isn't an accident, the USAF did this with Venezuelan codes off the coast of #Venezuela too. US reconnaissance planes are impersonating the codes of the countries they are conducting reconaissance on, endangering future civilian flights.
3) I'm waiting for someone to tell me it's for #OPSEC. Clearly that doesn't work, as Spanish and Canadian citizens have called them out while we're still in out PJs. The Iranians see them plain as day, they're only hiding their activities from the American (and world) public.
4) Tragic irony; on July 3rd 1988 the #USSVincennes #CG49 shot down Iran Air Flight #IR655. The #disinformation that followed fed the U.S. electorate the narrative that the plane was using a transponder of an Iranian Air Force jet.
Nope, the official investigation debunked that.
4) "...but it's a super-secret reconnaissance operation!" The UK, US, and a host of Baltic countries do reconnaissance near Kaliningrad daily. They frequently/always have their transponder on, and correctly display who/what they are. Proof? 4hrs ago:https://twitter.com/AirSpecInt/status/1146366734930198529 …
Why do they do that? So they clearly communicate their intentions to the Russian armed forces, and don't get shot down. It's normal, and non-threatening. Disguising planes and turning off transponders does not communicate intentions clearly to Iran, unless that intention is war.
Holy crap. I totally missed the correlation. Wow!https://twitter.com/dustave/status/1146428431791468544 …
I noticed this as well but figured it couldn't be, as the Iranians would know especially in that area thatit was not one of their own.
Right. Extrapolating from that: They're hiding from you, and they're hiding from me; the U.S. military thinks we're the threat, not Iran? o.0
Ah, you think this was a covert disguise, gotcha. If someone gave you a phone number of 212-000-0000, would you think it was real? Using 730000 is literally the 1st number assigned to the Iranian address space. They weren't hiding from the Iranians. They were "hiding" from you.
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