F-35 Tracking Online As It Flies A Mission Over Poland Near Ukrainian Border
An F-35A flew a mission over Eastern Europe and could be tracked online. But don’t freak out about OPSEC: it was almost certainly done on purpose.
In the morning on Sunday Feb. 27, 2022, at least one F-35 from Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, flew a mission over southeastern Poland, not far from Ukraine. How do we know? Quite simple, because the 5th generation aircraft could be tracked online on ADSBExchange.com, one of the websites currently used to track flights.
At the moment, the only F-35s known to operate from Spangdahlem are the U.S. Lightning II belonging to the 34th Fighter Squadron, from Hill Air Force Base, Utah. had arrived at Spangdahlem Air Base on Feb. 16, 2022 to bolster NATO’s eastern flank. Overall, 12 F-35s from the 388th FW and 419th FW, that collectively are the USAF’s first combat coded unit flying the Lightning II, deployed to Europe. Six have been forward deployed to Estonia’s Amari Air Base, Lithuania’s Siauliai Air Base, and Romania’s Fetesti Air Base (two F-35s for each of these forward operating locations) and six have remained at Spangdahlem AB. One of those still operating from Germany, carried out the mission to Eastern Europe that could be tracked online.
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