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Twitterthread: Swedish ELINT Gulfstream shows up in the eastern Med
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Posted on 05/01/2018 5:59:47 PM PDT by ameribbean expat

Far from home: Swedish Air Force Gulfstream S102B (102003) departed from Larnaca, #Cyprus, making surveillance mission over eastern Mediterranean Sea off #Syria, #Lebanon, #Israel and #Egypt coast @BalticWatch

After “watching” Kaliningrad for months this Swedish ELINT aircraft has deployed to Cyprus to join ISR efforts off Syria. With all the assets in the area (RC-135, RQ-4, IAF G550s etc) I wonder if the SwAF plane is there because it has sensors/capabilities others lack

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: elint; europeanunion; israel; jerusalem; letshavejerusalem; nato; sweden; waronterror
Worth watching to see if the Swedes get jammed.

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/20404/american-general-says-adversaries-are-jamming-ac-130-gunships-in-syria

1 posted on 05/01/2018 5:59:47 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: ameribbean expat

Lots of possibilities, it’s a big old world.


2 posted on 05/01/2018 6:04:16 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: ameribbean expat

I would consider light craft to be like the Jihadis ubiquitous modified Toyota trucks


3 posted on 05/01/2018 6:07:41 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: ameribbean expat

Question is, Where de submarines at?


4 posted on 05/01/2018 6:15:03 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: ameribbean expat

Light aircraft could get in and out of Larnaca with minimum exposure.

An IPhone is one helluva tool.


5 posted on 05/01/2018 6:23:40 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: ameribbean expat
LOL, Mikey wants to play with the big kids.
 
6 posted on 05/01/2018 6:49:25 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: ameribbean expat

Bikini Bobsled team gone wild?


7 posted on 05/01/2018 6:58:14 PM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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Finnys and Swedes is OK.

Hell Finland kicked USSRs but in the winter war.

The food sucks but what? We’re here to kick Ivan.


8 posted on 05/01/2018 7:10:50 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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Trump is kicking Ivans butt


9 posted on 05/01/2018 7:12:28 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife
"I would consider light craft to be like the Jihadis ubiquitous modified Toyota trucks"

I heard that the Toyota Hilux is the best light pickup truck ever made.

10 posted on 05/01/2018 8:27:01 PM PDT by armourenthusiast (Trumperific)
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To: VRWCarea51
Bikini Bobsled team gone wild?

Close enough?


11 posted on 05/01/2018 8:54:57 PM PDT by eldoradude (Walk a mile in a man's shoes and he'll never catch you.)
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To: armourenthusiast

In many ways it is a better mountain goat that a 7 ft wide Humvee.


12 posted on 05/02/2018 5:04:30 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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