In the air
Military aircraft, live
Military and government aircraft that broadcast their position, picked out of the ADS-B stream and drawn on a layer of their own.
What you see
- Tankers, transports, maritime patrol, surveillance and training flights, wherever they broadcast.
- Click one for its callsign, type, altitude, speed and heading, with links to look it up further.
- Switch on GPS interference alongside to see where aircraft are reporting degraded navigation.
Where the data comes from
- adsb.lolIts military feed and aircraft-type snapshots, the main source for this layer.
- adsb.fiA second military feed, used when adsb.lol is unavailable.
- OpenSky NetworkEverything else in the air, from which known military types and callsign prefixes pick out more.
The military feed refreshes every few minutes, and aircraft around your view every 15 seconds once you zoom in.
Good to know
- Most combat aircraft and many state flights do not broadcast, or broadcast without an identity. What you see is the part that chooses to be seen.
- An aircraft counts as military from the network’s flag, its type or its callsign, so some are missed and a few civil ones slip in.
- Volunteer receivers are densest over Europe and North America, and thin over oceans and conflict zones.
Goes well with
Live flight trackerSee the aircraft in the sky right now on a free live map, from ADS-B: airliners, private jets and military flights, with altitude, speed and route.
GPS jamming and interferenceWhere aircraft are reporting degraded GPS right now, worked out from their own ADS-B broadcasts: a live map of likely GNSS jamming and spoofing.
Military satellitesMilitary, reconnaissance and early-warning satellites whose orbits are public, on a live 3D globe from CelesTrak data, with orbit, altitude and passes.
Air-raid alertsAir-raid alerts as they sound, on a live map: Ukraine’s regional alerts and Israel’s rocket sirens, with when each began and how many in the last day.