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United States Air Force - Middle East Activity 21 February Summary

​​​​​​​Since the 15th January, there has been at least 249 C-17/C-5 flights from US Air Force bases and Army Airfields in the United States, Europe and Japan, to CENTCOM. There have been 58 KC-46 and KC-135 Stratotankers deployed over the past few days to Europe, representing around 15% of the entire USAF tanker fleet.

The base with the most amount of flights has been Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, with around 147 inbound flights.

Since the 19th February, there has been an additional 21 that have either arrived, or are en route to, CENTCOM. A further 10 Army-related flights, 6 Air Force-related, and 5 Navy-related flights are currently in-progress.

Coronet East 045

Boeing KC-46 Pegasus 2x
#AE63C4 21-46088 - GOLD 02
#AE5BC1 16-46016 - GOLD 12

Two KC-46 Pegasus tankers have re-positioned from McGuire AFB to Bangor ANGB on a Coronet East 045 tasking. Receivers are unknown, rumours range from USMC F-35B/Cs to "AK" F-22s from Elmendorf AFB in Alaska.

Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, Jordan

Five C-17 flights from Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany have been made to Jordan, all supporting the deploymnet of F-16s from Spang over the past week.

Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar

Al Udeid has seen a continuation of flights from Roosevelt Roads Naval Air Station, bringing it to a total of 12 from Puerto Rico. There has been a notable increase of Army-related flights from Dover Air Force Base to Al Udeid, with four in the ~24 hours.

Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia

The movement of support equipment for the 'AV" F-16s from Aviano Air Base in Italy appears to be being carried out by C-5s, which would mean less than the usual 10-14 flights we see for a deployment. In-progress Army Flights There are currently ten in-progress flights from Army Airfields, or are on Army support codes. 4 from Robert Gray AAF, two from Pope AAF and another four from Dover AFB.

In-progress Air Force Flights

There are 6 in-progress air force flights, three from Bangor ANGB, and one each from Langley AFB, Roosevelt Roads NAS and Elmendorf AFB. The flights from Bangor are potentially to support the vast number of tankers that have deployed to Europe over the past few days. Flights from Roosevelt Roads and Langley will be support for F-35s and F-22s.

The interesting one here is a C-5 from Elmendorf AFB - REACH 1872. Along with a Coronet positioning in the North East of CONUS, there is a remote possibility of "AK" F-22s from Elmendorf Air Force Base being deployed.

In-progress Navy Flights

There are five in-progress Navy flights, with three from Roosevelt Roads and two from Naval Station Norfolk. This is probably to support the now two Carrier Strike Groups.