I’m sure there’s plenty of ongoing DOD work done but I guess notable/newsworthy aspect of this is that it appears it is only the third time in it’s history that
CRAF as an entity has been activated.
Ties in with my recollection of aviating in the run up to both Gulf Wars (I think it was ) when it seemed half the civilian registered N reg traffic, especially 747s, over Europe were heading to and from the Gulf using call signs that weren’t ones you would normally associate with the livery…an operation on that scale certainly wasn’t something that happened everyday…