Interesting article from the Black Horizon blog. “I intercepted an interesting communication off a military satellite (most likely UFO) yesterday.”
A B-1B (SLAM ONE) was training to hit a “missile facility”possibly a practice run for a mission in the DPRK – but with a school bus depot in Snyder, Texas standing in for the real thing.
Here’s the recorded audio snippet: http://www.webbfeatproductions.com/satcom.mp3
You can ascertain the coordinates for Snyder, Texas from the audio.
Here’s a link to those coordinates on Google Maps: http://goo.gl/maps/Ss4UP
The B-1 was from Ellsworth AFB and practice-bombed (no real ordinance was expended) a school bus depot (yard) in Snyder, Texas.
Now using a little educated guesstimation based on the look of the yard on Google Maps – the school buses could have been a decent stand-in for mobile missile launchers and the building next to it the “missile maintenance” center.
You’ll also notice they mention SA-6 and SA-8 – these are mobile ground-to-air missile launchers similar to this Russian example:
SLAM ONE was cleared to use 2000 lb GBU 3 JDAMS to take out the hypothetical target.
All communications were made in the clear.
Also:
Late last night I monitored “DARK” flight of seven on PRIME (311.000 MHZ STRATCOM PRIMARY) asking for current weather for UAM.
On the frequency of 251.100 Mhz DARK flight also was calling for “GASSR 11 and GASSR 12” (KC-135s) for “Tanker drag to BAB.” BAB is Beal AFB in California.
PS: A source in Oklahoma says Tinker AFB just sent 2 E-6 Mercury aircraft up. The controller remarked on their departure: “Be safe and see you back in a few weeks. Come back in one piece!”
-Steve Douglass
UPDATE” “USPAF: US Not sending B-1s to Guam.”
PPS: You can listen in to the heavy iron flying westward on the live radio feed at the top of this page.
Please note: There are two receivers on the feed – civil and military ATC communications. Sometimes you’ll hear an overlap.
My monitoring post
http://deepbluehorizon.blogspot.it/2013/04/b-1bs-practicing-to-pound-north-korea.html
Follow up:
Despite reports that are beginning to circulate on the Internet, the U.S. is not sending B-1 Lancer heavy bombers to its massive Pacific Ocean base on Guam.
“They’re not at Guam,” a U.S. Pacific Air Forces spokeswoman just told Killer Apps. “They definitely didn’t even stop through.”
The U.S. constantly rotates B-2 stealth bombers and B-52 Stratofortress bombers through Anderson Air Force Base, Guam under a scheme meant to maintain a constant heavy bomber presence in the Pacific. Last week, the U.S. sent six B-52s from Minot AFB in North Dakota to Guam. Also last week, a pair of B-2s also flew a 13,000-mile round-trip mission from Missouri to South Korea to perform a practice bombing run over the peninsula — the North Koreans loved that.
B-1s, however, often deploy to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean or to a base on the Persian Gulf, where they are used to provide air support to troops in Afghanistan.
“They’re pretty concerned with the desert, so they’re pretty busy over there,” added the spokeswoman when asked if the B-1s ever deploy to Anderson as part of the Air Force’s “continuous bomber presence” mission.
Editors note: A source at Dyess has notified this author that two of the fight of seven (spares) B-1Bs I monitored a couple of nights ago have returned to the base. The others have not. He could not tell me where the five eventually landed at. In the statement above “not sending” is ambiguous at best. Maybe it should have been re-worded as “didn’t send or hasn’t sent.” – Steve Douglass
Diego Garcia? Maybe not even tasked to NOK but Iran instead. Maybe making an example of Iran might put NOK on notice??? Risky.