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Aviation enthusiast, Defence and Security Policy research fellow, Canadian, and all around nerd she/they *views my own

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The Aviationist
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Canada’s First F-35 Conducts Maiden Flight The Royal Canadian Air Force’s first F-35A Lightning II flew for the first time, marking a milestone in Canada’s controversial fighter acquisition program to replace the CF-188 Hornet fleet. Story: theaviationist.com/2026/09/23/c...

theaviationist.comCanada’s First F-35 Conducts Maiden FlightThe Royal Canadian Air Force’s first F-35A Lightning II flew for the first time, marking a milestone in Canada’s controversial fighter acquisition program

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Shower Cat
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Big accounts are sharing a screenshot of alleged US demands, which is unsourced. The same account shared another unsourced screenshot of US demands that appears to be an AI summary including hallucinations that seem to derive from Trump admin ultimatums to Ukraine. Sourcing and details matter.

Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social

Holy shit. No wonder Carney told the US to pound sand.

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the same silly number that was floated back in the winter. 30 F-35s doesn't even give you a full 2 squadrons of jets.

Christy Somos@christysomos.bsky.social

La Presse reporting that Carney is likely to go with 30 F-35s and 60 Gripen. The announcement is expected around or after the American mid terms… www.lapresse.ca/affaires/202...

lapresse.caAnalyse | Après les GlobalEye, le gouvernement Carney lorgne les avions de chasse GripenSigne de sa volonté de réduire la dépendance économique et militaire du Canada face aux États-Unis, le gouvernement Carney a décidé cette semaine d’écarter deux prétendants américains pour la fabricat...
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my good friend @noahgairn.bsky.social was finally able to pressure Transport Canada/Canadian Coast Guard into releasing photos of their brand new Hermes 900 UAV. it was ordered back in 2020 and was finally delivered this past fall after delays. TC has been hesitant to release photos ever since.

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it had originally been planned to be operated by Transport Canada's National Air Surveillance Program which is used to monitor pollution, fisheries and other missions. its been now transfered to the Canadian Coast Guard/Department of National Defence where its role remains unclear.

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A change in content, USAF C32A 98-0001 made a brief stop to Halifax Stanfield International Airport operating as SAM518. Unsure if this was a visitor or just a training flight. however a cool visitor none the less.

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BREAKING: Canadian C-130J Hercules aircraft have begun airdropping humanitarian aid into Gaza. This marks a major shift in Canada’s approach to the crisis. #cdnpoli

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BREAKING: Canadian C-130J Hercules aircraft have begun airdropping humanitarian aid into Gaza. This marks a major shift in Canada’s approach to the crisis. #cdnpoli

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A Canadian Hercules aircraft conducted its first aid drop early this morning after departing Jordan. This is the first time Canada has conducted independent airdrops into an active conflict zone in decades previous Canadian aid was dropped by Jordan into Gaza.

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BREAKING: Canadian C-130J Hercules aircraft have begun airdropping humanitarian aid into Gaza. This marks a major shift in Canada’s approach to the crisis. #cdnpoli

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According to Flight Tracking Data a Royal Canadian Air Force C-130J Hercules Aircraft that was assigned to Air Task Force Prestwick in Scotland has been repositioned to King Abdullah II Air Base where it joins two Belgian A400M Aircraft.

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Evergreen Intel 👻
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Came across this awesome pic of Commander Emily Shilling in her office. She's now part of the lawsuit filed against Trump & Co. in the Western District of Washington today. Once a bad ass, always a bad ass.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

NEWS: A second lawsuit challenging Trump's anti-trans military ban was filed today, in the Western District of Washington (Seattle), filed by @hrc.org, @lambdalegal.bsky.social, and Perkins Coie: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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RCAF CC-150T 15004 over the last few days has been towing CF-188s down to California dropping them off over Colorado. Today I caught on Live ATC that they were operating as LOGIC31 Flight, LOGIC being a callsign associated with the RCAF's Aerospace Testing and Engineering Establishment.

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Now as to where they're probably going, AETE CF-18s have been known to frequant Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake in California where Canadian Flight Test engineers are working alongside their USMC counterparts testing the AN/APG-79(V)4 Radar and other upgrades so I suspect they are headed there.

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RCAF CC-150T 15004 over the last few days has been towing CF-188s down to California dropping them off over Colorado. Today I caught on Live ATC that they were operating as LOGIC31 Flight, LOGIC being a callsign associated with the RCAF's Aerospace Testing and Engineering Establishment.

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Now as to where they're probably going, AETE CF-18s have been known to frequant Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake in California where Canadian Flight Test engineers are working alongside their USMC counterparts testing the AN/APG-79(V)4 Radar and other upgrades so I suspect there.

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Evergreen Intel 👻
@vcdgf555.bsky.social

Most trans people you wouldn't know them if you met them on the street. You wouldn't be able to pick them out of a line-up. Most go about their lives wanting to be left alone. They go to work and give 200% so that no one could ever say they didn't meet any standard because they were trans. 1/

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "With the stroke of my pen on day one we are gonna stop the transgender lunacy, and I will sign executive orders to end child sexual mutilation, get transgender out of the military and out of our elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools."

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RCAF C-130J 130605 has been participating in Operation Christmas Drop 2024 at Anderson AFB in Guam. Operation Christmas Drop is the USAF's longest running humanitarian mission delivering supplies to Islands in Micronesia. This is the RCAF's second year participating in this operation. #C2B553

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Project Owl
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Hi Bluesky! Project Owl is a 38,000+ strong community dedicated to open source newsgathering, analysis, intelligence and general discussion. We've been cited globally for members' work @uacontrolmap.bsky.social and we're currently following events in Syria Come join us! discord.com/invite/proje...

discord.comJoin the Project Owl: The OSINT Community Discord Server!Project Owl: The OSINT Community strives to be the hub for international OSINT and event monitoring. | 38172 members
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On Oct 31st, Royal Canadian Air Force Personnel formally joined the Australia Canada United Kingdom Reprogramming Laboratory (ACURL) at Elgin AFB, this is quite significant in many ways and it marks the start of Canadian personnel starting to train on the F-35.

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The ACURL will provide RCAF F-35s with enhanced mission data file programming and it will allow them to continually improve the F-35s Electronic Warfare capability, making Canadian F-35s more lethal. This contingent will slowly grow over the next few years with it maxing out at about 20 people.

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On Oct 31st, Royal Canadian Air Force Personnel formally joined the Australia Canada United Kingdom Reprogramming Laboratory (ACURL) at Elgin AFB, this is quite significant in many ways and it marks the start of Canadian personnel starting to train on the F-35.

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The ACURL will provide RCAF F-35s with enhanced mission data file programming and it will allow them to continually improve the F-35s Electronic Warfare capability making Canadian F-35s more lethal. This contingent will slowly grow over the next few years with it maxing out at about 20 people.

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A Skylease Cargo 747 was seen delivering at least one Canadian made Roshel Senator Armoured Personnel Carrier to Port-au Prince Airport. These vehicles are being used by the Kenyan Police as part of the UN Mission to Haiti.🧵

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Now as to who's provided these vehicles its really unclear, the United States Government has in the past donated 34 MaxxPro MRAPs to Kenyan Police Forces in Haiti. These vehicles could either be a donation from the United States or Canada or purchased directly by Kenya for the mission in Haiti.

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A Skylease Cargo 747 was seen delivering at least one Canadian made Roshel Senator Armoured Personnel Carrier to Port-au Prince Airport. These vehicles are being used by the Kenyan Police as part of the UN Mission to Haiti.🧵

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From the video we can see N903AR a Skylease Cargo 747 and looking at ADS-B data we can see that it flew between Toronto which is home to Roshel's main manufacturing plant and landed at Port-Au Prince International Airport on October 29th. The aircraft departed after spending 4 hours on the ground.

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Two Roshel Senator APCs were seen driving on the streets of Port-Au Prince on November 11th, about 13 days after the original delivery flight was seen unloading at the airport. These vehicles have MSS Serial Numbers, seemingly indicating that they are being used by Kenyan Police.

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WarshipCam
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HMCS Windsor (SSK 877) Victoria-class diesel-electric submarine coming into Groton, Connecticut - November 13, 2024 #hmcswindsor #ssk877 SRC: FB- Submarine Readiness Squadron 32

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Over the past 3 weeks both RCAF and Commercial Charter Aircraft have been shuttling Canadian Personal and equipment to Cyprus for a potential Non-Combatant Evacuation Operation here's a break down. 9 Flights in Total 5 C-17s, 4 Charter Aircraft, 2 from Edmonton 7 from CFB Trenton all to Cyprus.

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with the impending and gradual downfall of twitter I'm going to increasingly be using Blue-sky as a platform. For those who are new to following me welcome!

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