A snapshot of the most interesting aerial activity visible right now, anchored to 14:48 UTC with about 15,300 aircraft aloft and no emergencies in view. As always this ADS-B feed is Western-heavy: US and NATO transports, tankers and ISR dominate, while non-Western military traffic is largely absent. Today is a transport-and-repositioning day: a pair of electronic-attack jets has crossed the Atlantic, a heavy wave of strategic airlifters is moving over Europe and the Middle East, and the allied presence off Venezuela continues into a fourth day.
Compass Call pair has crossed the Atlantic
The two US Air Force EA-37B Compass Call jets (AXIS43 and AXIS86) that ferried from the Aegean up to the North Sea yesterday have kept going: overnight they crossed the Atlantic, came in over Maine, and are now over Ohio at FL430, tracking west across the northern US and presumably headed back toward their US home station. Following the same scarce electronic-attack pair across two days and an ocean is the kind of repositioning this feed does well; a ferry profile like this is about moving the aircraft, not an active mission.
German A400M off Venezuela, day four
The military-transport presence in the southern Caribbean has now run four consecutive days. Today's aircraft is a German Air Force A400M (GAF495), which worked the Aruba/Curacao area this morning and is now near St. Croix, echoing yesterday's GAF585 on nearly the same routing. A separate military-flagged contact (WARR32) was low over Curacao, and a Colombian Air Force 737 (FAC1220) crossed the western Caribbean. The feed gives position and type, not mission.
A heavy day for strategic airlift
The transatlantic and European corridors are unusually thick with heavy-lift transports. Two Qatar Amiri C-17s (LHOB280 and LHOB255) are on the move, one crossing the Mediterranean from Morocco toward Malta and the other descending at the head of the Red Sea. Around them sit a US Air Force C-17 over Bulgaria (RCH045), a Canadian CC-177 over Poland (CFC3681), a US C-5M Super Galaxy over England (RCH2155), and Spanish and RAF A400Ms — a dense logistics picture rather than any single event.
Middle East: tankers, transport, and a Sinai peacekeeper
The Gulf and Levant activity noted yesterday continues. A pair of US KC-135 tankers is working near the UAE while a third KC-135 descends off the Israeli coast, and a UAE Air Force C-17 (SUHL102) is near Abu Dhabi. Over the Negev and northern Sinai, a CASA C-295 on the MFO callsign (MFO695) — the Multinational Force and Observers peacekeeping mission — is flying a low patrol.
GPS interference on several fronts
Airliner-level position-integrity collapse (NACp pinned at 0) is visible in several separate cells today: the Gulf of Finland / Estonia zone is back (Air China, China Eastern and China Southern jets degraded together), the UAE and lower Gulf continue (Etihad, Kuwait and others near Abu Dhabi), and a cluster sits west of Moscow. Note a caveat: the large groups of degraded aircraft over southern Germany and Switzerland are summer glider traffic with low-precision equipment, not an interference signature. These are observed integrity drops, not proof of any specific source.
US July 4th weekend fills the home front
Ahead of the holiday, the domestic board is defined by restrictions: a Washington DC VIP zone for July 4 plus Independence Day air-show TFRs, and a fresh wave of interior-West wildfire hazard TFRs issued overnight across Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona and Alaska. Firefighting shows directly in the feed too, with a CH-47 helitanker (N42CU) on the 1255 fire code over the mountains north of Los Angeles. Overhead, the WindBorne stratospheric balloon constellation is still aloft, drifting over northern Mexico and Quebec near FL500–535, higher than any jet.