US flights over Mediterranean – new report (03/01)

New report about US flights tracked this morning (03/01/19) over Mediterranean Sea. This list is not thorough.

Three US tankers from RAF Mildenhall landed between 08:00 – 09:00 CET in Aviano AFB

Tankers over northern Italy: #USAF Boeing KC-135 (59-1513,58-0113 & 57-1474) in flight to Aviano AFB pic.twitter.com/m3in3Pi8iB
— ItaMilRadar (@ItaMilRadar) January 3, 2020

Three USAF MC-130J are in flight off Crete. Two of them are making an aerial refueling mission

Aerial refueling off Rhodes (10-5714 & 11-5731) pic.twitter.com/ozu9QbX21Z
— ItaMilRadar (@ItaMilRadar) January 3, 2020

Meanwhile we’ve tracked some traffic landing in NAS Rota. The C-5M is carrying Patriot surface-to-air missile systems to Middle East

Traffic inbound NAS Rota:
– #USAF Boeing C-5M (86-0025)
– #USAF Boeing C-17A (02-1111) pic.twitter.com/wxynjkDa8k
— ItaMilRadar (@ItaMilRadar) January 3, 2020

In these minutes we’re tracking also two USAF KC-10A (85-0031 & 87-0120) entering into Mediterranean eastbound. At the same time three (in this picture you can see one of them) USAF AC-130J (87-9288, 89-0283, 88-1803) on the same route.

Last but not least we’ve tracked also an Italian Air Force Alenia EC-27J leaving Italy eastbound. Destination unknown.

Italian Air Force Alenia EC-27J "Jedi" (MM62224) leaving Italian airspace off Calabria eastbound.
The EC-27J is the electronic warfare version of the C-27J pic.twitter.com/iRzamNYq74
— ItaMilRadar (@ItaMilRadar) January 3, 2020