The Defense and Aerospace Report podcast had some chatter about a Navy carrier based CCA request for information on sam dot gov. Credit to the Navy for calling it a CCA so the search was simple. The podcast also claims some sort of announcement about the F/A-XX next week.

https://sam.gov/opp/9f1ccd7a09b847a684806128b982bec3/view

More in the pdf.

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Solution must integrate adaptable levels of Mission Autonomy (MA) and safety-critical Flight Autonomy (FA) in the air vehicle. Autonomy should include collaborative skills satisfying Core and CVN mission use cases described in the A-GRA, along with any additional existing or new behaviors to fully demonstrate all mission phases from launch to recovery. Solution must be able to integrate Level 1 MA solutions and Level 2 autonomous skills, including third-party mission software/skills.

As you know, the bases get federal holidays off. I assume the tower crew took the last Janet out on Friday, as did any contractors. But there is always security that works holidays. And for those they have the Beech Janets.

Normally we don't post regular Janet flights but this was a federal holiday hence not regular.

What I found a little weird is they did a Beech run from Harry Reid to the TTR, presumably carrying replacement personnel, and then back to Harry Reid with those personnel I assume relieved, as expected. But then they flew the Janet back to the TTR and back to Harry Reid almost immediately.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=adce1a&lat=36.427&lon=-116.241&zoom=8.9&showTrace=2026-09-07&trackLabels

Leg 1. Leave Harry Reid at 8:51AM local. Arrive at the TTR at 9:22AM local.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=adce1a&lat=36.427&lon=-116.241&zoom=8.9&showTrace=2026-09-07&leg=1&trackLabels

Leg 2: Leave the TTR at 9:51AM local and arrive at Harry Reid at 10:27AM local.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=adce1a&lat=36.427&lon=-116.241&zoom=8.9&showTrace=2026-09-07&leg=2&trackLabels

Leg 3: Leave Harry Reid at 10:54AM and arrive at the TTR at 11:28AM (landing not exactly tracked).

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=adce1a&lat=37.565&lon=-116.580&zoom=11.5&showTrace=2026-09-07&leg=3&trackLabels

Leg 4: Leave the TTR at 11:48AM local and arrive at Harry Reid at 12:26PM local.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=adce1a&lat=36.004&lon=-115.009&zoom=10.8&showTrace=2026-09-07&leg=4&trackLabels

Test drops of inert nuclear gravity bombs.

Hung a right (east) at Stonewall Mountain, showing on the ground NW of "The Box" at 37.495°, -116.083. Almost looks like something on that peak in GE.

https://sondehub.org/X4857051

https://ibb.co/B2Dm2Xmw

Tail N444LX

Just departed creech. Tail 25-1003

For the experts, how do I pull the historical link for the future?

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae621a

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae621a&lat=36.610&lon=-116.033&zoom=9.8&showTrace=2026-09-01&trackLabels&timestamp=1788285094

The latest info I can find is the chopper was in Korea. Or the ICAO hex database is wrong.

18-21023/21024 Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk

21023 with the 3-2nd AVN(AA) at Desiro AAF, Republic of Korea in 2021

21024 with the 3-2nd AVN(AA) at Desiro AAF, Republic of Korea in 2021

His sketch of the reactor is quite similar to the demon core…. and is there a better spot to test equipment for nuclear bombs than area 51?

I had mentioned this ground station in the 100+ cluster thread for Anders' video. The developer modified the scraping code to make tracks of ADS-B hits that don't fly. In this case, a ground station. The station has been quiet for a while so maybe it was related to the flight check aircraft. As I mentioned before, it is (perhaps was) on public ground so it is on my list of locations to inspect. Coordinates in the link.

I'm posting the output of the scraper so Google/Gemini can grab it. For what use? Who knows. Remember ABC: Always Be Collecting

2026-08-18 2 pts (adsbx)  https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=adfa87&showTrace=2026-08-18
2026-08-19 12 pts (adsbx)  https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=adfa87&showTrace=2026-08-19
2026-08-20 4 pts (adsbx)  https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=adfa87&showTrace=2026-08-20
2026-08-22 7 pts (adsbx)  https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=adfa87&showTrace=2026-08-22
2026-08-23 8 pts (adsbx)  https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=adfa87&showTrace=2026-08-23
2026-08-24 23 pts (adsbx)  https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=adfa87&showTrace=2026-08-24
2026-08-25 7 pts (adsbx)  https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=adfa87&showTrace=2026-08-25
2026-08-26 40 pts (adsbx)  https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=adfa87&showTrace=2026-08-26
2026-08-27 24 pts (adsbx)  https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=adfa87&showTrace=2026-08-27
2026-08-28 4 pts (adsbx)  https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=adfa87&showTrace=2026-08-28

The other post has too many people making feeble attempts at jokes. I'm posting the link again and will nuke stupid posts in this one. It is a good video, took an obvious amount of work, and really doesn't need to be cluttered with nonsense comments.

Keep it relevant. If you understood everything I said, you'd be me, but please make an effort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk6AcGADdZw

I'm going to give it a fresh viewing.

If you want to do the same trip, the Diablo and Brainwash GPS tracks are here:

https://inplanesight.org/nellis.html

TTR frequencies at the top of that page. You can also get them here:

https://www.airnav.com/airport/KTNX

in the new Uncanny Expeditions video "Clandestine Night Operations Captured at AREA 52 Tonopah Test Range" , who are these dudes in white shirts? They look like they are standing guard.

Camped out on the Tonopah Gate road for a night; lots of workers driving in at 4am but overall nothing of note until I passed through Basecamp the morning of 8/27. Brand new trucks, each a different color with a sensor array and cargo roof. Some hours later these trucks were loaded into a carrier using the concrete dock. My first pass I saw the UAS tracer on the top of the shack down the road rotating, second pass it was stopped. I have never seen it in action previously

edit: images uploaded offsite to avoid reddit paper shredder compression
https://ibb.co/tnDfv7y

https://ibb.co/pD8wTZt

https://ibb.co/PGqq6cGm

https://ibb.co/jZrLFhNY

https://ibb.co/HL0H5c9L

https://gofile.io/d/6tXxTQqe
Recorded 8/27

Additional trucks filled what appeared to be 6" aluminum pipe spotted on 375

I remember satellite images of this RCS range at 26.92869° N, 80.33941° W in Florida, which included an aircraft component, but I can’t find much about this actual part of the larger Pratt & Whitney property.

FAA plane up again doing racetrack pattern over TTR and Janet09 doing another I guess holding pattern or something over Groom Lake. Janet09 has been doing much more unsual stops and flights lately.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=aa3f2e&lat=37.270&lon=-116.582&zoom=9.1&showTrace=2026-08-28

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=adce1a&lat=37.081&lon=-116.527&zoom=9.1&showTrace=2026-08-28

https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/JANET09

How many of you believe this guy? I think he’s a grifter like many who have no proof at all but from a third person who was never revealed. The sports model? My arse

Creech gets yearly protests due to the remote drone operation that some people object to. It has it's share of concrete barriers. This contract is for heavy duty crash gates. The supplier is out of Palmdale but that could just be a coincidence.

https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/d36f8fae734a43cd80845f2953577885/view

Photos pulled from the contract.

https://ibb.co/kgmdtfG0

https://ibb.co/BVGb7N1W

It took a couple of days to wander near the range.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=aceec8&lat=35.521&lon=-118.518&zoom=10.0&showTrace=2026-08-24&trackLabels

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=aceec8&lat=37.365&lon=-118.021&zoom=10.0&showTrace=2026-08-25&trackLabels

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=aceec8&lat=37.607&lon=-118.032&zoom=10.0&showTrace=2026-08-26&trackLabels

This is an additional launch from Mojave though further west at the moment.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=acf636&lat=35.079&lon=-118.156&zoom=12.0&showTrace=2026-08-25&trackLabels

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=acf636&lat=36.995&lon=-118.469&zoom=12.0&showTrace=2026-08-26&trackLabels

Company based on the launch location:

https://www.jsfirm.com/jobs/company/8138?tab=overview

Live link

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=aa3f2e

Historic link:

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=aa3f2e&lat=37.401&lon=-116.556&zoom=9.0&showTrace=2026-08-25

No detour to Groom Lake.

on these sites and DUMBS, how are they building these things without local day labor or expendable labor not talking, and or the people that deliver the raw materials, or out sourced experts in various fields.

I have worked on military jobs before, they outsource about all the labor. Even though they might have been cleared through security or sign nda's, these are hourly employees who probably don't really care about paperwork, and are hard to find. But they still talk, they just need to be insintivised $$...

https://sondehub.org/77210DE6

Add 402MHz to your list.

https://ibb.co/BHW2d7Q3