No Blue Angels?

FlightAware ADS-B Flight Tracking
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The Blue Angels are doing flyovers in Detroit, Chicago and a few other cities.

https://abc7chicago.com/community-events/blue-angels-fly-over-chicago-in-salute-to-health-care-workers-fighting-covid-19/6174724/

I see many military flight with tar1090. But no Blue Angels. So they don’t use the same system?

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they might have simply turned of the transponders. In the US they could also use the 978 system which is a different frequency

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Military in the US often like to use ModeC, which only gives a squawk but doesn’t let you identify the airframe like ModeS.

And then for ModeS you still need MLAT with multiple receivers unless they use ADS-B (ModeS plus positions, same 24 bit identfier for airframes)

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