Military Wednesday - ELINT Aircraft

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Wednesday, Nov 24 2010 by

Electronic signals intelligence (ELINT) refers to intelligence-gathering by use of electronic sensors. Its primary focus lies on non-communications signals intelligence. The Joint Chiefs of Staff define it as “Technical and geolocation intelligence derived from foreign noncommunications electromagnetic radiations emanating from other than nuclear detonations or radioactive sources.”

Several Beech RC-12 Guardrail ELINT/COMINT at Hunter Army Airfield (Birds Eye)
Several Beech RC-12 Guardrail ELINT/COMINT at Hunter Army Airfield

Kawasaki EP-3 (Google Maps)
Kawasaki EP-3
Hawker Siddeley Nimrod in flight (Google Maps)
Hawker Siddeley Nimrod in flight

Two USAF RC-135V/W RIVET JOINT surveillance aircraft (Bing Maps)
Two USAF RC-135V/W RIVET JOINT surveillance aircraft

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