Unchained Preppers
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: JohnyMac on March 06, 2023, 03:16:32 PM
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Air Mobility Command has directed its refueling and cargo planes to obscure the majority of identifying information painted on the aircraft, citing national security concerns -- an unusual move that is alarming to government watchdogs.
James Stewart, a spokesman for Air Mobility Command, told Military.com in an emailed statement that airmen's missions take them around the globe and often involve sensitive movements of cargo -- the main reason behind the change.
"Understandably, we have concerns about the operational security impacts to these missions in the modern era of on-demand, real-time information," Stewart said. "Subdued paint schemes that limit identifiable information is one way we are taking a hard look at how we operate to ensure our ability to continue to deliver for America and our allies and partners around the world." - Military.com (https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/03/01/air-mobility-command-removes-tail-numbers-and-unit-info-planes-alarming-watchdogs.html)
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Not surpising. I imagine its partially in response to the Russian AWACS incident. The Belorussian partisans damaged one with a drone strike. It took virtually no time for many post-strike sources to identify which specific AWACS was damaged.
My thinking is the USAF wants to make it a bit harder for folks to easily track aircraft and do that to them.
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Not surpising. I imagine its partially in response to the Russian AWACS incident. The Belorussian partisans damaged one with a drone strike. It took virtually no time for many post-strike sources to identify which specific AWACS was damaged.
My thinking is the USAF wants to make it a bit harder for folks to easily track aircraft and do that to them.
Black helicopters?
I've seen a handful of black and unmarked small planes in my area, a few parked at the kenai airport, and nobody knows nothing about them??
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This minor policy change does not surprise me. Considering that Tail number chasing and logging has been a surprisingly popular hobby for decades and since the internet, it's shared world wide. You'ld see folks with telephoto lenses and etc. outside of Air Force bases in England - for example - and there were lots of platforms in/out of those bases. This was during the Cold War. Attempting this within the Soviet Bloc would have gone very badly.
I have no problem keeping our military movements private. However, movements of politicians should be very public.
Sir John Honeybucket