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#USAF United States Air Force
- Iran War Activity RAF Fairford, United Kingdom
9 March - 2359z

Activity at RAF Fairford has been steadily increasing since the 6th of March. So far, there have been 11 Global Strike Command B-1 and B-52 bombers arrive, 10 x United States Transportation Command (#USTRANSCOM) chartered flights which are either scheduled, or have arrived. Furthermore, there have been 5 x C-17s, 2 x C-5s and 2 x C-130s.

United States Transportation Command

The USTRANSCOM flights have been a mixture of Kalitta, Eastern, Omni and Atlas Air Boeing 777s and 747s.

Two Boeing 777S - OMNI 2043 and EASTERN 3163 - arrived on the 9th of March from Ellseworth AFB and Dyess AFB. These two were passenger aircraft, not cargo.
Four cargo B747s arrived from Ellsworth AFB (CONNIE 411/413/415/417), CAMBER 8192/8548 from Dyess AFB and CAMBER 8675/CONNIE 505 from Minot AFB.

Air Mobility Command

We have seen 5 x C-17s and two x C-5s from CONUS over the past three days.

From Dyess AFB, C-5s REACH 1884/5038, and C-17s REACH 694/579.
From Minot AFB has been REACH 636/660/689.
There haven't been any AMC flights from Ellsworth AFB.
Additionally, two Ramstein-based C-130s have arrived with cargo to offload, and depart within a few hours.

Global Strike Command

Three flights of bombers have now arrived at Fairford.

On Friday, B-1s PIKE 72 arrived as the airspare, followed by PIKE 72-74 on Saturday morning.
Saturday evening, B-1s MOLT 14 arrived in the evening, and MOLT 11-13 in the morning, but these had to divert to Ramstein due to weather. They have all three since returned to Fairford.
Finally, HOOKY 21-23 flight of B-52s arrived at Fairford around lunchtime on 9th March.

The current expectations are another flight of three B-52s will arrive on the 10th, bringing the total to 8 x B-1s and 6 x B-52s.

​​​​​​​There have been NO indications that B-2s will be deployed to Fairford.