Armchair Admiral 🇬🇧 ✓
@ArmchairAdml · United Kingdom · joined 17 Jan 2022
Software Engineer, not an Admiral | USAF/RAF Military aircraft tracking, VHF/UHF, Rivet Joint Enthusiast | @mata_osint
36 991Followers
623Following
18 022Posts total
881.5KViews on collected posts
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@ArmchairAdml This kind of precise, cynical, political humor does not exist in America... In comparison SNL is juvenile, crude and amateurish
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@ArmchairAdml Yes, Minister. Back when BBC produced solid content.
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@ArmchairAdml A truly genius series. It was presented as comedy. Now we see it as "acted documentary". So much is now revealed to be accurate.
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“What is the purpose of our defence policy?”
“To defend Britain!”
“No Bernard. It’s to make people believe Britain is defended”
“The Russians?”
“No, the British. The Russians know it’s not defended” https://t.co/CLFfdKqyGc
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0:48
#RAF Royal Air Force
Boeing P-8 Poseidon MRA.1 1x
#43C918 ZP801 - RAFAIR 7045
RAFAIR 7045 up from RAF Lossiemouth today, first taking a look at Kaliningrad and Belarus, and is now operating over the Baltic Sea at FL40.
@MATA_osint https://t.co/tGemVQs1h5
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#USNavy United States Navy
Boeing P-8A Poseidon 2x
#AE5C60 169334 - COYOTE 71 [#AE6889]
#AE5F50 169567 - SHINER 71 [#AE6838]
The two U.S. Navy P-8s at Mildenhall are out again today. SHINER 71 followed by COYOTE 71 both using tactical hex codes are headed back out into the http
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I keep seeing this “Let’s Save Water” advert… it infuriates me so much.
We’re the 4/5th largest economy in the world, and we’re running adverts shaming people into using less water?
BUILD SOME FUCKING RESERVOIRS !!!!!!
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AAR over the Med again.. hopefully my sim doesn't crash this time...
(yes, I need to fix the contact point, but I took 50% fuel load so that's enough for the 11hr flight)
#msfs2024 https://t.co/RUE810HCGY
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#USNavy United States Navy
Boeing P-8A Poseidon 2x
#AE5C60 169334 - COYOTE 61
#AE5F50 169567 - SHINER 61 [#AE5838]
COYOTE 61 and SHINER 61 are back out this morning.
Interestingly today COYOTE is using their real identity, while SHINER continues to use the same tactical ht
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Slowly getting the hang of this... boom contact point is a little off, idk how to fix that.. https://t.co/rKkh6Sf9jj
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@ArmchairAdml Superb thread 👏🏻
Do you know?
If the RAF regularly take an addition airframe from beyond the 9 ‘core’ voyagers now? As that and the 🇫🇰 air bridge effectively make 11 on ‘ops’.
The 11 F35B in 🇺🇸, are they trial airframes etc, outside the deployable fleet? Or part
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@havoc_aviation *August, sorry for the mistake.
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Summary
That concludes the update for June. Any corrections, suggestions etc, please let me know! Thanks again!
Follow @havoc_aviation for more aviation photography.
🧵/END
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Reconnasissance / AEW&C
Boeing E-7 Wedgetail AEW.1
No change in the status of the E-7 fleet. WT001 has pinged several times at RAF Lossiemouth but hasn't flown, and WT002 remains at Southend Airport for painting. No sign of life from WT003.
Boeing Poseidon MRA.1
RAF Poseidon ht
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Tankers & Transport
Airbus KC.2/KC.3 Voyager
The entire RAF-operated Voyager fleet is currently active. Due to the temporary closure of RAF Brize Norton, the Air Mobility fleet has been dispersed to various airfields around the country.
The RAF Voyagers are primarily operating
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Combat Aircraft
Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II
Eight F-35Bs which deployed to HMS Prince of Wales in early June have now returned to RAF Marham, leaving eleven deployed F-35s at Edwards Air Force Base, Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, Naval Station Norfolk and Naval ht
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#RAF Royal Air Force - Fleet Status August 2026
Royal Air Force Fleet Update for August 2026. In this series I keep track of RAF tanker, transport, ISR and deployed combat aircraft.
Usual disclaimer, all information is obtained via public sources (ADS-B, ACARS, Spotters https:/
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@ArmchairAdml Rumour swirling that F22s are due into lakenheath next week on there transit home ?
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Summary That concludes the update for June. Any corrections, suggestions etc, please let me know! Thanks again!
Follow @havoc_aviation for more aviation photography. 🧵/END
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Reconnasissance / AEW&C
Boeing E-7 Wedgetail AEW.1
The first Wedgetail AEW.1 airframe was delivered to RAF Lossiemouth from Birmingham airport after completing another test flight a few days prior.
It will undergo both ground and flight tests while at Lossiemouth before a https
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Combat Aircraft
There are 32 RAF combat aircraft currently on deployment across the world, plus No. 17 Squadron RAF - the F-35B Test and Evaluation unit.
There are 8 Typhoon FGR.4s at Durkhan Air Base in Qatar (No. 12 Squadron), 10 FGR.4s at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus on Operation h
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Tankers & Transport
Airbus KC.2/KC.3 Voyager
The Voyager fleet remains unchanged from last month. All RAF-operated aircraft are active, only a single AirTanker-operated aircraft (G-VYGJ) is inactive, and both aircraft leased to Jet2 are operating.
Two Voyagers are based at RAF
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#RAF Royal Air Force - Fleet Status June 2026
Royal Air Force Fleet Update for June 2026. In this series I keep track of RAF tanker, transport, ISR and deployed combat aircraft.
Usual disclaimer, all information is obtained via public sources (ADS-B, ACARS, Spotters forums). ht
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#RAF Royal Air Force - Fleet Status May 2026
Royal Air Force Fleet Update for May 2026. In this series I keep track of RAF tanker, transport, ISR and deployed combat aircraft.
Usual disclaimer, all information is obtained via public sources (ADS-B, ACARS, Spotters forums). http
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Rispetto ad account della stessa dimensione
18 post degli ultimi 90 giorni, accanto alla fascia di 10K–100K follower. arriva a molti, ma pochi di loro reagiscono.
Visualizzazioni mediane5 796questo account924mediana per 10K–100K
Copertura, %15.67%questo account3.62%mediana per 10K–100K
Interazione, %0.81%questo account1.52%mediana per 10K–100K
| Metrica | Questo account | Mediana per 10K–100K | Rapporto |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visualizzazioni mediane per post | 5 796 | 924 | 6.27× |
| Copertura (visualizzazioni ÷ follower) | 15.67% | 3.62% | 4.33× |
| Tasso di interazione | 0.81% | 1.52% | 0.53× |
Altri account di questa fascia → Confronta con un altro account → Come sono costruiti questi parametri →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
3.1K5 Aug
2.4K
833
14.4K15 Sep
16K16 Sep
49.6K
9.2K
3K17 Sep
6.9K
2.5K
399.4K20 Sep
5.3K
2.1K
3.3K
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.41%5 Aug
0.37%
0.48%
0.36%15 Sep
0.24%16 Sep
14.27%
0.99%
1.02%17 Sep
0.35%
1.18%
2.95%20 Sep
4.54%
4.90%
3.57%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes78.5%17 401 in total
Reposts11.6%2 567 in total
Replies0.8%173 in total
Quotes0.9%199 in total
Bookmarks8.2%1 817 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
Followers by day
17 Sep
Daily snapshots since 17 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.
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