
Secret Drones, Airport Chaos & The World’s Ugliest Jet?!
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Well, hey, everybody. Welcome, man. We had some last minute technical difficulties like, like very last second. We just got the computer back up. We had to restart it. And anyway, that was kind of crazy. So yeah, I know. I thought I was going to have to start the show. I know. Right. Me too. We kind of lost us here for a second. Here, I'm going to switch a couple of things around, give me just a second. That's okay. Yeah. Thanks everybody for watching. We've got viewers already on X. And then of course, YouTube, we appreciate that. If you don't, give us a follow on our YouTube channel. We definitely would love to have you on there. It's free to subscribe to our channel. We're constantly working on different videos that, you know, from the content that we captured, a lot of Hill Air Force Base, Nellis Air Force Basils are our two favorite spots. But anywhere that we are, we try to capture
something. And if you go to our YouTube channel and subscribe, you've got a chance to winning some rampswag. So stay tuned for that because we're going to talk about that here shortly. Anyway, in the meantime, how about we start the show? Let's start it. All right. Welcome to the Wednesday night live stream. We've got a lot of talk to talk about tonight. Um, geez, just start with a quick rundown or, well, you know, isn't it interesting that we do this three nights a week? And there's always stuff to talk about. Naviation, isn't it? Always imagine that. Yeah. It's like, it's like Ryan and I were talking today and we're like, oh,
shit, what, what should we talk about tonight? And then you, you pull up X. I mean, this is why we do X day Tuesday. And everything that's happening in the world is, uh, is, is available at your fingertip. That's right. Um, looks like we got Jettarazzi checking in a hoi there, a hoi matey. Welcome to the show tonight. And, uh, Wadman technical problems with Tony. Ah, the universe is healing. Hey, hey, I thought that was a BH comment, but that's coming to the show tonight. Yeah. Thanks, Wadman. Yeah. I thought you had my back, bro. Nice cross check. That's a lot of things for checking. You know, going back to what Ryan was saying, I mean, we could literally just have whatever aviation topic thrown at us. And most of the time, most topics we could probably go on and on about. Oh, absolutely. And especially us. I mean, we, you know, we'll talk military. We'll talk, you know, commercial, um, you know, we have a lot
of general aviation experience too. And, you know, corporate jets and, you know, work in the ramp and blah, blah, blah. And so, and so, we're bathed in Jettarazzi. Yeah. Well, I think we, one time, didn't we come to the conclusion that we have like 70 plus years combined in the industry? God, something like that. Yeah, it has to be between Air Force, you know, ramp flight training, all that kind of stuff. So, yeah, I mean, we never claim to be experts on anything, but I mean, geez, we can sure talk about it. Yes, we can. Absolutely. I mean, we are experts on some things. I mean, give us some credit. Well, I mean, the photography aspect, you definitely are an expert there. Yes. Yeah. And, you know, I was going to, I was going to ask you guys this earlier too. Since we relaunched, you know, we kind of took a hiatus on doing the live stream last year, doing the video, um, pretty much all of it last year. I mean, a little bit in the beginning,
but since we kind of relaunched, we've got so many new followers and whatever. I mean, I'm thinking maybe in the future, we need to do like an episode kind of on our backgrounds. And yeah, what we've done, the experiences, because there's a lot of people that probably don't know. Yeah. That's a good idea. I mean, I, I remember we did that back when we were doing a long time ago, just the audio version. Yeah. We were like, hey, guys, we have a podcast. Look at us. We're trying to talk about stuff. Yeah. She go back to those early episodes. No, man. The first like 10. Yeah. That's okay. It was fun. Everyone starts somewhere. I think I remember our very first episode. I was like, welcome to the ramp check podcast. Yay. It was awful. Trust me. We can go back. I could probably pull up the audio. We should pull up some audio from some of those clips and, and maybe pull up some clips from, oops, I meant to hit the
part. Some of our other episodes. But anyway, we're going to start the the live stream tonight on kind of a solemn note. I just want to go ahead and we'll, we'll do this right here. We just need to pull it up. That's right, because we lost everything. Stand by one. So if you remember, well, of course, you remember it just happened, but our fallen airman lost in the line of duty during Operation Epic Fury. Of course, the the tragic Casey 135 mid-air collision. Thank God that one of them landed safely and that crew was spared and that crew survived. So anyway, they arrived home today. And this this post originally, of course, from the White House. Their courage will never be forgotten. And Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
never forgotten heroes forever. So you just want to kind of share. No, and whatever side of the aisle you're on, and you know, whatever you think of President Trump, he always does make the effort. And you know, you can't say that about every president we've had in my lifetime, at least. Right. So it got to give him credit. Yeah. Well, and when he's there, when he's there, now granted, we're seeing pictures, obviously, and this is from the media and from the press, but, but, you know, we've we've learned over the last, oh, I don't know, 10 years that they're not just taking his picture because, you know, he's our commander in chief. They're looking for that gotcha moment. And I just a lot of media does. And it doesn't it doesn't matter what commander in chief is standing there to be honest, like just to see the commander in chief honoring. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And it's that's what's important. Right. And the point, the point
that I was trying to make is the fact that he's actually present. And meaning present, he's not there checking his watch, seeing, you know, how long is this going to last, you know, different things like that. So anyway, so Godspeed to the airman, Godspeed to the families. Thank you for your sacrifice. Thank you. Thank you for your service. When any service member dies in the line of duty, it's it's always heartbreaking. They're extremely brave for serving their country. Because, you know, most of the time when and I'm speaking from experience, when you are in the military, you're at a time of peace. And just knowing that the call might come where you actually have to go abroad overseas somewhere to defend our country. And they're they're ready to go for that call. So, yeah. And let's not leave out any other service members that may have,
you know, tragically passed as well. But, you know, this is an evasion. I mean, that's our focus. Right. Absolutely. And that's what I was going to say. It hits home a little bit closer. Because aviation is our passion. So anyway, all right. So we move on to something a little bit more lighthearted. Yeah. Okay. This is coming from the war zone. TWZ.com. We love this website. You should go to it. Subscribe to their X account or follow them at the very least. But Japan's EC2 electronic warfare jet, arguably the world's ugliest aircraft. Jess flew for the first time. What do you think? Yeah, let's try that again. Okie dokie. There we go. You go louder. That's yeah, that's a little goofy looking. I mean, there's been some reconnaissance jets. The United States
Air Force has flown before that. Right. That's a pretty good one. Well, and there was the British one, the the Nimrod. I mean, the name was just as, yeah, just as ugly as the actual aircraft. It's so bad. But I look at that aircraft. And I just think, eight. Right. Oh, interesting. It's like it's like an albatross with a swollen beak or something like that. Yeah, you have some footage of that thing flying. Yeah, I do. I'll show that in a second. Yeah. So we'll just read the story really quick. The latest addition to the Japan Air Defense Force is without question one of the ugliest military aircraft, a grace and apron today with its enormous bulge nose and other awkward protuberances say that five times fast protuberance. Yeah, the
I've got like Michael Scott burned his foot in the George Foreman grill. Exactly. The Kawasaki EC2 is nevertheless an important addition to the JASDF at a time when it faces increasing challenges from various sophisticated threats. China, the aircraft, which has generated much interest, took to the air for the first time today at Gifu Air Base in the perfecture of the same name. Wow, the big words in that paragraph. So here we'll just wait, is the, is that probably Japanese National Anthem? Do you think that's right? I don't know. I do. We'll just show this footage right here. You just never know. Yeah. So I mean, it's wild looking and I mean, it's not as ugly in the air, I guess. That's dirty on the ground. It's pretty ugly, but she sure is. It doesn't look that bad cleaned up. Yeah. This is from Fahad Nahim on X at Fahad Nahim.
New Kawasaki EC2 stand-up jammer or for the JASDF converted from a C2 transport massive nose radome for jamming enemy aircraft slash radar or radar slash comms at a safe distance, bulges for extra antennas, official reveal March 12th, made in flight March 2026, entering service in 2027 to replace the single EC1 from 1986. Functionally impressive for protecting fighters in contested airspace, but let's be real. Let's one ugly mother looks exactly like my ex-freeno's surgery. Exactly. That's pretty wild. Let me do that quote better for you. One ugly mother. Yes. Yeah. There you go. Yes. You know, what's interesting is it, you know, if that's like kind of like electronic, it's almost like the growler. It's weird that they would need some big transport to
do that, whereas, you know, the growler does a similar mission. I mean, I don't know. Maybe it did say from a distance, so I guess you have to have a bigger radar, you know, bigger sensors from it. Oh, look at that triple bogey on the landing gear. Yeah. That's kind of cool. It's like a little mini C17. It really is. It's actually kind of cool. So I got what are you guys? I was just going to ask what and ask in the chat. What do you guys think? What is the ugliest aircraft out there? Okay. So here's one. Yeah. That's a good one. Gosh. That's the that's the EC 135 echo model. I believe it's like droopy. Yeah. I'm just going to say that's an ugly one. That's an overpressurized DC 135. Yeah. That's getting stretched. Yeah. That's awesome. Interesting. Yeah. Let's see here. Anyway. Let's go to a few chats here. So
Rader 21 Matt. You guys could each do an episode on here. Yeah. I mean, you know, if you guys would want to hear that, sure. We could do that and just kind of see what happens. But that'd be great. I would love to just talk for hours about my flight dispatcher stories. And I know you guys would wait a sec. We have hours from past episodes where you do wait. You were you were in our aircraft. Yeah. Did you know that? You were a dispatcher. Wait. I can tell. I'm just kidding. I'm being Joe. Thanks for honoring the fallen. Hashtag respect. Absolutely. Absolutely. Exactly. Joe. Yeah. Generazzi flying platypus. Yeah. Maybe that is the name. Although I think it would be hard someone in Japanese to say platypus. Hopefully the I don't even want to attempt that. It would sound really bad. I hope I don't know if NATO nicknames like aircraft from our from our allies. But that would be the perfect NATO designator for that aircraft, the platypus. Yeah.
What I've been saying the super guppy. Yep. That is an ugly one. That is a very ugly aircraft. I agree with that one. I had the privilege of actually refueling a super guppy when I worked from a gestic air out at some like international. Thank you. A long, long time ago. And yeah. Thank God a certain person isn't watching because I'm sure he'd be commenting on how long ago that actually is. So, um, Advocate Joe, the ugly is there playing in the world. And I gave this deep thought at an F14 Tomcat bomb from the air. Yeah. Yeah. Man. I'm going to agree with you there. That is ugly. I know. So anyway, uh, onto the next story, Aaron, you want to go next or? Yeah. So I know you've got something pretty cool. We've got some other cool stuff to talk about as well. Yeah. So yeah, this is cool. You know, air show season, just kicking off. Um, so the callings found, oh wait, first of all, this is from vintage aviation news.com.
Calling foundations F 100 F super saver returns flight at Ellington Field. One of the only two air war, the air were the North American F 100 F super saver. In the world returned a flight this past weekend at Ellington Field in Houston, Texas owned by the Collins foundation and operated by the Vietnam War Air War flight museum. The historic jet is now preparing for appearances during the 2026 air show season. That's awesome. Got to love it. The Vietnam, like Camo, era, I hope. Where's over the last? That's tries to get that. Yeah, that would be cool. Awesome. Anyway, it's very continuing. Cool. Yeah. Yeah. This is cool. So in 1956, North American aviation F 100 F super saver 56-3844, November 26, Alphazulu, painted as 63-3951, detachment 1 416, tactical fighter squadron, fast, fax, misty, 0-1 from her base at Ellington Field.
So yeah, that's, that's great. I've, I've only seen one F 100 super saver in my life in person. On the ramp and sought take off and that was when I worked. God, this is forever. Go down at Phoenix, Mesa Gateway Airport, Arizona. Really? Yeah. That's cool. I never knew you saw one. Of those fly, that's something I have not. When I worked for Majestic Air, I remember the Wendover Air Show that we all went out to. And I flew out on the DC-3. So I was, I was working the ramp, you know, helping, you know, all the jets depart, you know, to do their, to do their shows and stuff. And I got to actually launch an F 86, not an F 100. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But it was a cool. I remember the old F 100 was the next, you know, yep. Next in line, that F 100 was the, was the first, um, supersonic. That's why they call that
super saver. I like it. That's off the burner. F 86 did not have afterburn, but the F 100 did. So that's probably how it could, it could go supersonic. But yeah. Nice looking jetman. That's going to be cool. Whoever gets to see that at air shows. That's really pretty. I love it. Like you mentioned, I didn't realize it was the Vietnam Camel, but I think that was a good choice. Oh, yeah. For the pain. Well, you know, F 100s. I mean, lots of combat over Vietnam. Right. Um, anyway, there's a cool picture of the volunteers of Vietnam War Flight Museum. That's cool. Do you guys remember, sorry, this is a random thought, but that's what we do here. Um, remember when we were at the air show and that that Sky Raider was doing the, like a little demo, because it reminded me of Vietnam and 80s and Vietnam and the air show announcer kept saying, and the A1 Sky Raider. Yeah. And no one, no one corrected him during
the whole thing. And I'm just like, yeah, so it's got to tap them on the show there and be like, hey, Sky Raider. These old timers, they probably just let them roll, you know, these old timers narrating the shells. They're so great. But man, sometimes they, they really messed up the word. I remember years ago at West Jordan Air Show Ryan when we were young. Well, I got this on the HS tape, too, is the, we had a pair of eight Tans visit from Davis Mont, the Air Force Base, and the announcer kept calling it Davis Monmouth. And everybody's like, dude, Monmouth, how could you mess that up on mom? He's just like Star Wars, I guess. Uh, Jeterazzi, that hunt is my party. I'm just talking like how I think you say it by the way. Um, everyone hundreds were the first wild weasels, too. Nice. I'm not sure what's YG BSM.
So the more you know, yeah, just, sorry. And if I don't know that, and don't forget about these beautiful. Yeah, yeah, Thunderbird slew off. Oh, man, that would have, I had a time machine. Yeah, I mean, this sounds really dumb. There's a lot of things I would do if I had a time machine, but one of them would be 5 p 51 in World War II. And then the other one would be just go to air shows in their infancy and just watch. So my, my, my list is pretty similar. Um, but the first thing I would do is, um, buy Google stock. Yeah. And then you could do all the other. And then I could go back again and do all the other stuff. Yeah. So, um, stock. And then the episode. But see, you go back your time for one of these events, like CXB 70 Valkyrie fly or something. Oh, right. And you could invest in something that, you know, now I am so old that I got to see
the Blue Angels perform in the A4s. Okay. Um, the Thunderbirds, uh, in the T 38s. Did you ever see them in the, in the F 105s? Because weren't, weren't they in F 105s after the F 100s? I think they were. Yes. They went to the 105s. Then I think the F fours. Then they went to the F fours. So I saw them in the F fours for sure. I don't, if I did, I don't remember. Um, but, uh, anyway, and, and by the way, here's. Oh, here's, okay. Right. So, why GBSM came from the idea of making oneself a target to Sam and flinging an anti-radiation missile on the Sam site. Reden Hampton's 100 killers. Thank you. And by the way, it means Joe also let us know it means you've got to be hitting me. Oh, yeah. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Sorry. I'm getting away. We were. We were way off. He even edited it in his comment. I know. I know what
LOL means there and BRB means. And what else? Um, yeah, that's it. Oh, Lord. Let's see here. Um, so let's go to this story here really quick. Um, so this is coming from. This is from Hustle Bitch on X. Oh, I was late. Sorry. Yes. At Hustle Bitch underscore. So, you guys know how much I hate clickbait. Frickin hate it. Pilot makes shock announcement. They're diverting everyone out of Denver. It's crazy. I can't believe this is happening in all caps. Yeah. Hey, and his defense that is shocking. Just kidding. I just want to do it. I used to work as a flight dispatcher for Sky West. I bet you didn't know that. Um, whenever there was a thunderstorm, we had jets that were holding and diverting from Denver all the time. So anyway, um, yeah, they decided to build Denver and international like halfway to Kansas. Right. Right.
It's not really in Denver. Right as those storms develop into, uh, you know, mega cyclones and, and uh, let's see. Oh, so VC action media says volume seems low. That's interesting. I wonder why we'll have to look at our settings. Thank you for letting us know. We appreciate that. Thank you. That's weird. Um, so a woman on a plane records the pilot over the loudspeaker. And moments later, Denver airport reportedly has no power, no takeoffs, no landing, plane stuck on the runway. Others turned around mid air. Passengers sitting with zero answers, pilot sounding just as confused. If you were on this plane, what would you be thinking right now? So let's, let's, no more. Let's listen to your screams. I can't believe this is happening. I don't have much more information. I'll let you know when I get it. I'm trying to miss that. Oh, the information I do have there, the birdie, everyone right now, so there are no more inbound aircraft. At least for me, that airlines have a bird and everyone
out in Denver because of this crazy situation. Sort of Salt Lake City with busy. To update you, guys, Denver Airport has no power. There's no flights coming in or out or stuck on the runway. So if you have a flight coming out of Denver, I would check the status of diverting all planes coming into Denver. Thank you. Is she streaming live from an airplane? Because I'm pretty sure that's not allowed. And you're on the ground. Well, I don't know. I guess in us. Yeah. Maybe she's connected. Yeah. I don't know. Right. So here's, here's the latest update. So, um, this is coming from, um, let's see, Brook Williams at, uh, just KDVR, uh, local news there. KDVR. Um, airport operations are beginning to resume after a power outage at DIA was impacting hundreds of travelers Wednesday and a ground stop was in effect. The airport said in a post,
the power outage started around 9.20 a.m. And certain areas of the airport were still experiencing outages as of 10 a.m. Just after 11 a.m. the airport said power was restored and airport operations were resumed to normal. Um, Excel energy, which serves the IA told Fox 31 that crews were in the process of engineering, um, energizing, er, sorry, energizing a new transformer at one of the two substations, one, a piece of equipment shut off, causing the power outage in part of the airport. Oops. Though power was restored. Many people reported continued, um, crowding near trains and in the concourses and flight delays continued to rise around. Yeah. No shit. That's what happens when you lose power to major airport. Um, this comes as a partial government shutdown means TSA officers do not get paid inside. Yeah. Okay. They got to throw in all this, right? Right. blah, blah, blah. Anyway, um, so that was kind of interesting. Um, look at that picture. Yeah,
it's just going to say and you know what's surprising is, man, I worked, it's all like international for 15 to 16 combined years. And I can remember one time it was shut down and that was due to snow, a severe snow. Um, you know, yeah, to act as like that at a major international area. Yeah. That's actually, I was thinking about this. That's actually a pretty big deal. Like you would think with something with an airport like that with the critical infrastructure that the backup redundancies would be, you know, on and full effect and not, not let something like this happen. So whatever transformer blue or whatever happened, it must have been, you know, they're obviously going to have to look into this because that, you know, again, that's a pretty big deal. So that was interesting. So Aaron and I, we worked at Denver International Airport, didn't we, brother? Mm hmm. Very short period of time for me, but yes. Exactly. So interesting
airport. But that's this right here. This is the waiting area for the trains to get between terminals because the only way you can get between the different gates, A gates, B gates, C gates, B gates is on that train. There is a walkway, but it's a very long one. Yeah, it's, um, you're right on the train. Yeah, I mean, yeah, you know, that, that would suck those trains. I was going to say something, sorry, this isn't, something. They're luxurious. But all I remember is getting on the train and the, the little like do do do do do do do do do do do do do do approaching B gates. Yeah, but anyway, yeah, I mean, yeah, thankfully they got it restored and it doesn't sound like it was too long. I actually thought when the report first came out, that it was a lot longer than it was. Advocate Joe says Denver area has many airports. The pilot can just pick one and thank you plan there. Okay. Yeah, but not big enough. As the flight as the flight dispatcher in the room,
can I address this please? I already know what you're going to say, but go ahead. What are you going to say? I'm going to say you've already got pre planned diversion points and airports. Right. But the thing is on a power outage like this, you don't, you don't have a plan for alternate fuel. So you have to either rely on your 45 minute reserve, which you're pretty much not allowed to break unless it's an absolute emergency. Yes, Colorado Springs is close by, but if you think about the volume of airplanes, oh yeah, that are probably already in the area, Colorado Springs can only take so many. The next closest, I mean, you've got all the different airports in the mountains, but there's this thing called drift down. And when you're, when you're calculating flights, especially alternates, drift down is a huge factor. We can go into that stuff later, but yes, there are options. And it depends on how close or how far the aircraft is away. So yes, Abjeeq, Abjeeq, Abjeeq, Abjeeq go. Yes, you are right to a certain extent, of course.
Thanks, brother. Oh, you're welcome. He also says, sorry, that you can't stream or video call from the air passenger contract of your age with many. Yeah, thanks, Joe. Absolutely. You probably just posted it. It's probably just video. Yeah, video. Yeah. And then post it. But she was talking. Yeah, okay. Anyway, that makes sense. So our final story tonight, this is kind of a cool one, you guys. Yeah, it's kind of a big deal, actually. It's kind of a way big deal. So this is coming from the aviationist. And this is all over X, if you haven't seen it. But could this be our best ever look at America's elusive RQ 80? 180, RQ 180. Yeah, sorry. It's okay. You correct me. I correct you the one. Okay, never mind. So there's a lot of different posts. And this is a screenshot of the on Larissa News article featuring the image, plus an earlier report by the aviation, just regarding previous sightings.
So according to the Greek outlet on Larissa, or Larissa, anyway, a flying wing aircraft, clearly not a B2 spirit. And, you know, okay, for reference, B2 spirit, clearly not a B2 spirit was photographed, reportedly flying over Larissa, Greece. Is this our best view ever of the US Air Force secretive ISR drone? Based on comments from local sources that the aircraft was a B2 spirit that diverted into Larissa airport with an apparent technical issue. Of course, to any trained observer, the aircraft, the aircraft shape is clearly not that of a B2. Additionally, the undercarriage visible does not resemble that of the B21 radar either. And the overall shape of the aircraft rules out the RQ 170 Sentinel. So the closest match. Which is much smaller too. Right. Yeah. So the closest match we can find corroborated by anonymous sources with some familiar erity of the clandestine
jet. I just got tired by saying that sentence. Is the famous yet still classified intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance UAV operated by the US Air Force that we have come to know as the RQ 180? Almost certainly this designation is not used officially, but we use it in lieu of a confirmed one. Thank you at mech design XYZ on X slash Twitter for forwarding the siding to us. So here we go. Articulture. Right. Articles saying that a B2 landed on a military base in Larissa, Greece because of some issue. The photos, however, showing something that's neither a B2 nor a drone like an RQ 170. Not sure how credible this is or if it's actually a US aircraft. So yeah, so we're just sharing something that we've seen. So on the ramp, no one needs to come out and shame us if these aren't real. You know, I don't know. Right. Yeah, shame on us. So how about you guys in the chat? Do you know of any existing photos of this
on the ramp of the RQ 180? It's curious. You know, you know, it's crazy. If that is the RQ 180, I mean, it's painted black like a B2, you know, spirit. Well, B2 spirit isn't black. It's like a really deep dark blue, right color, grayish, bluish color. That looks like it's black. So, you know, flying at night probably mostly. It does resemble B21 quite a bit. Now it, supposedly the RQ 180 isn't that designed by Lockheed Martin. I think it is a Lockheed Martin. I don't know. All right, chat. Confirm that for us. Yeah. So it's interesting how that design, the B21 RQ 180, if that is indeed confirmed to be an RQ 180. And the fact that people were mistaking it for a B2 means the RQ 180 must be pretty large. It must be, again,
B2 everybody. It's photographed by us, by the way. Yeah. There's a RQ 180 designed by Northrop Grumman. It is, really? Yep. Okay. Just think. All right. Well, I stand recording the good light. I know. I think the RQ 170, I don't know. The secret of drones, I don't keep up with drones as much as I probably should. Yeah. But yeah, interesting. That isn't just. Well, and the drone has become such an integral part of the US Air Force and the Navy's arsenal. And then, you know, the our next Gen aircraft and the drone swarm, sorry, trying to talk here. I mean, that's going to be an integral part of our of our tactics in the future as well. So it's going to be pretty exciting thing to keep up. Well, and here's another thing to think about. So if, if that isn't our Q 180 and, you know,
whatever jet that is and that's Northrop Grumman, then you got B21 and B21 is actually just, just cruising through the test phase and, you know, evaluation and, you know, they're talking about starting up an additional production line. Yeah. And they're talking about next year, they're going to start building B21s, which is wild. So that makes you think, if that is our Q 180 made by Northrop Grumman, they probably used a lot of that from that program to get B21 to where it is today, because it looks similar. I mean, my gosh, it almost has a exact same profile. Very, very similar. Comment from Blotman. I would say no, just because of security reasons, they would have people stationed to monitor potential, potential trespassers. Yes, yes. Okay. Yeah. Probably. And, you know, to someone that isn't really, like, versed the Navy, I could see how someone would look at that and think like B2. I mean,
oh, totally. You know, I mean, like, it's because, because to someone who doesn't follow aviation, they're like, oh, that's that black jet that shaped like a triangle. Like, that's, and it's not the B2 spirit to them. It's the, it's the stealth bomber. Yeah, the stealth bomber. Yeah. So that's like mainstream media. Yeah. Exactly. Watching them try to explain an aircraft image or video on screen. It's cool photos, though. Yeah, if they're, I mean, so Intel walrus at Intel walrus on X also posted this. And of course, posting on the RISIS pictures. This aircraft scene over Larissa, Greece is not a B2 like the local Greek news reported or an RQ 170, but it is in fact, best imagery ever published of the RQ 180. And undisclosed low observable drone used by the Air Force. Location suggests use in the Iran conflict. So anyway, well, we didn't crash land in Iran where the RQ 170 did one time. Yeah,
or at least, you know, reported in photoshow. How come, how come when aircraft crash in Iran, they get so much larger? How does that happen? Or is it so much smaller? I'm talking about the fake photos. I'm just being me, brothers. Yes. I missed that one. Hey, everybody. Don't forget that it's a live stream every Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday night, right here on YouTube, X, Facebook, and I sometimes rumble, I guess, if it's working. It looks like it's working tonight. So if you're not sure, rumble, hey, welcome. Hey, make sure, though, you head over to our YouTube channel. If you're not subscribed, we've got a lot of viewers on X tonight, probably a lot of first timers. Hey, follow us on X while you're there, but head on over to the YouTube's. Subscribe to our channel. Comment on some of our videos. We've got lots of
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