I found a Tomahawk test range on San Clemente island and there's all sorts of interesting relics in a scrapyard there. I'll post an image of what appears to be an old-school VTOL Kestrel, an A-5 Vigilante with the wings taken off and another F-16/MiG-21-type light fighter I can't identify - hopefully you can identify the aircraft for me.
There's all sorts of interesting missiles, drones and vintage X-Planes that I can't ID.
There's lots of different maps beyond Google Earth like Bing, Yahoo, Yandex etc but good lord they are heavily censored. It appears that experimental NATO aircraft have a lat/long time to censor their locations and they just put fake clouds over them because 50-150 ft aircraft are not hard to spot at all and cast a shadow.
With enough free time you can catch surfaced Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines creating a wake when returning to King's Bay at flank speed but that doesn't breach OPSEC so it's not like catching a secret they missed.
I've been trying to catch some secret black project aircraft mid-flight or on the ground and the closest I got was finding a Nimrod MRA4 by drawing lines from MoD Boscombe Down airfield holding pattern diagrams to try and find a strategic-bomber sized aircraft at bingo fuel, unloaded and guessing what path it would take and turn at and ended up getting a discontinued RAF maritime patrol aircraft. It was interesting that the guesstimation method landed right on an aircraft way out.
Coming up, the pic of the 3 aircraft I'm trying to identify.
From left-to-right, it looks like an A-5 Vigilante with the wings removed, a Kestrel or AV-8A (it didn't match up with the -B or even the -A, looks closest to the Kestrel) but I have no clue what the aircraft on the right is.
Take a look at the top profile drawing of a MiG-23 on Wikipedia. The shape looks really close.
Jason Phillips
Google Earth reads 45ft, wiki says the A-7 is 46ft and google earth has a slight margin of error so I don't think it's and corsair guy might be right. But there's so many aircraft around that length.
Any identifying features you see that narrow it down to an A-7? In the first image it looks dual-engine, the second looks single, I'm no expert on wing-types and aircraft features, I just recognize them by sight, make planform comparisons and use the ruler.
Ethan Murphy
There's so many variants and the -27 too. Wiki says the A-5 is 76ft and the MiG-23 is 54ft long. The google earth ruler shows the one one the left as... 54ft. Does that make you right? There's a margin of error of like 1-3ft.
Isaiah Rodriguez
The narrow fuselage combined with the long (front to back) wing. You can also see the shadow of the folded wingtips in the shot.
Christian Scott
Hard mode. Just south of the 3-aircraft picture. Anyone able to ID these missiles? Is that a Silkworm in there?
Same guy. QH-50 DASH? Surely its not one of the pic related type experiments, I doubt they'd leave that out in the elements but it would be in a museum.
That blink-182 "Tic-Tac" pentago AATIP aliums bullshit? Those are Skunkwork drones launched from SSGN VLS cells. And I've seen them, they're not lying about the speed and maneuvers. They're faster than the fastest satellites at treetop level and silent. I ain't shitting you.
Brayden Davis
oh no that's above my paygrade more than i wanted to know but thank you
my grandfather was an airplane mechanic between ww2 and korea (he was discharged two weeks ahead of the discharge freeze) and he hated the first gen jets, he said they couldn't even glide and were death traps.
Do you mean like belly landing when the engines fail or they were a deathtrap to land?
James Bailey
retaining some semblance of momentum to make a more survivable exit whether landing or ejecting on a decent vector. the way he told it, the early jets would just drop out of the skies like rocks and the pilots had a slim chance of survival. he had a disdain for automobiles also. "one spinning rubber band" he said.
Sebastian Davis
My interest in San Clemente Island is because I know that those AATIP "Tic Tacs" are coming from that direction.
I know from 9:37 youtube.com/watch?v=26vx-EfVD8g that this whole thing is a PsyOp to threaten the Ruskies. The Black Aces commander is pretending that he thought he saw a submerged 737 that Hudson'd and is underwater. This was within 50nm of a USAF/USN/FAA joint ops radar that was set up for post 9/11 reasons and they had an E-2 and Princeton CG AN/SPY-1 right near it. In the magazine interviews he keeps saying "it's like whitewater, definitely not a wake" to make people think its not a submarine, or to reverse bluff to Russians that it is.
I personally saw the Tic-Tacs around the same time and they're not embellishing the no visible propulsion systems or flight surfaces, the zig-zagging is accurate and the speed is phenomenonal.
All that Jalopnik/aviation mag shit when they talk about the SR-72 is stone age compared to what I saw. I used to be at peak autism with aviation 5 years ago but I'm rusty as hell so my sleuthing abilities aren't as good. Dozens of books on aeronautics and tisming in flight and strategy sims have just slipped from my recall sadly.
I know from disclosures and Russia Yandex maps fuckups the existence of one underground submarine dock at Capey Smokey, Novia Scotia. But I don't think that has shit to do with the 2004 Nimitz incident.
What the fuck would the equivalent of a Black Ops force of submariners be? Do regular navy just take on operations verging on being extrajudicial like CIA SAD/SOG?
Julian Parker
do you ever worry about finding things you aren't supposed to know? you're really fucking knowledgeable, and i like your posts very much; maybe they should put you on the payroll. virginia is lovely this time of year.
Jordan Cox
Get skeletonized real slow by cobalt nonce
Thomas Cruz
For context: To put it simply, I stumbled across a massive racketeering scheme with the DoJ and what happens is not gangstalking. They bribe you, offer you a custom-tailored dream job, summon anime babes and golden houses - I said fuck off. The separate thing over the Tic-Tacs, the DoD people just make jokes to the effect of "you can't do shit about it".
When you stumble upon something you're not supposed to you they don't throw you out of windows anymore. Assange only got arrested - not dead as far as we know - because he was in a position to make fanfiction that could have caused a worldwide uprising, due to the credibility of wikileaks.
Leo Howard
The moral of the story is: Don't fear spooks, they're pussies and it's too difficult nowadays to execute liabilities, you can literally list off tons of secrets and they'll say "pls dont" they indict fictional Russians over things you did that weren't crimes, they're a joke
