US air force nuke sniffer, WC-135R, Constant Phoenix, hex ae048d

Relocated from US to Souda Bay on Crete, Greece today. Mission unknown but it is designed to detect nuclear explosions (and presumably nuclear accidents).

No nuke sniffer flights since reloaction. https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae048d
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WC-135R Constant Phoenix nuke sniffer relocated from Souda Bay, Greece to Mildenhall, UK during the afternoon.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae048d&lat=43.519&lon=11.153&zoom=5.1&showTrace=2023-07-05

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@auonsson I'm assuming this is precautionary, no?

@hoolahoop these are the last missions in Europe, its been quite active. To my knowledge we do not know what it looked for in the Baltics for example.

I assume it is here precautionary. Re Zaporizhia.

https://twitter.com/auonsson/status/1656554735585951744?s=61&t=4gcHbGrROrFSuXbQYtIwWA

@hoolahoop this much more knowledgeable person shares my reading of it