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> What combat situation will require a military aircraft to be flying 30 meters from civilian jet doing routine flights?

Evacuating leadership during a 9/11 scenario?

> i don’t believe that there really is no technical solution to provide awareness to civilians of the presence and location of military aircraft without altering the pilot’s experience

There is. That’s ADS-B. Which broadcasts your position. So it’s turned off in military aircraft at times, for obvious reasons.



>So it’s turned off in military aircraft at times, for obvious reasons.

Obvious reasons to me are in active military operations against an enemy. Not flying around the airport of the nation’s busiest runway and civilian populated areas.


The article indicates it was a classified mission profile. Some things we keep secret even in peacetime.




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