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united states air force - iran war
special operations command / raf mildenhall
27 march - 0020z
the build-up and transit of mc-130j commando iis at raf mildenhall has been ongoing since the start of march. So far, there have been at least 41 mc-130js (excluding based aircraft) that have arrived at raf mildenhall. Of those 41, at least 11 have the silent knight modification.
These aircraft have been arriving in the early hours of the morning and have largely been unmarked or had their tail numbers taped over. A few have been changing their callsigns on departure, and most have had 20+ passengers on their inbound flights.
The first aircraft, 14-5805, arrived at mildenhall on the 3rd of march as unlit 77, departed on the 24th as bzain 31 and then arrived back on the 25th again as bzain 31.
In the past 24 hours there have been 15 mc-130js departing. Dacha 11/12/13 and lapel 23/25/27 departed on the 26th and 25th, although i'm not sure what callsign they arrived under, nor their identity.
Agree 35/41/45, pilum 53/55 and swash 03/05/07/11 all departed on the 26th of march, leaving behind swash 09 which had a bird strike on landing on the 23rd march.
Three ac-130s remain at raf lakenheath, along with a single usmc kc-130 which arrived from mcas miramar.