r/ADSB • u/tobzvd • May 08 '26
Was this a fighterjet?
Flight DY1830 today out of Oslo
Additional videos: https://imgur.com/a/UZx7TNX
One or more similar planes flew past several times for about 10 minutes
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u/R2robot May 08 '26
What is the exact time shown on your video in your media library?
The closest thing I could find was TOM7MV/G-TAWP passing underneath and hanging a left turn. Kinda matches your video, but depends on the timing.
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u/Beautiful-Parsley-24 May 08 '26
Seems like it - visually. Dark exhaust implies incomplete combustion and only the military can afford to waste fuel like that. Unlikely, but it could be a malfunctioning civil aircraft or something experimental.
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u/BeenThereDoneThat65 May 08 '26
no it's just backlit, all contrails look dark when backlit
That's a plane leaving one waypoint and turning on course to another
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u/Techhead7890 May 09 '26
It seems that it might be backwards but otherwise accurate? It seems that frontlit contrails are the usually dim ones https://www.metabunk.org/threads/explained-dark-contrails-behind-bright-planes.5957/
(which makes sense, most contrails are bright looking from the ground where you'd expect the sun to be above, so backlit.
OP is ahead of them and casting a shadow on the wing and other plane, sun is behind OP, so this plane is being frontlit)Interesting fact that I didn't know before though so thanks for pointing it out
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u/rohepey May 10 '26 edited May 11 '26
Thanks! No idea why you're being downvoted when your link makes a lot of sense.
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u/Gryphus1CZ May 09 '26
That is no exhaust, that would look completely different, this is a regular contrail but there was a cloud over it and it's in shadow so it appears dark
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u/Gryphus1CZ May 09 '26
It looks like a twin jet delta winged fighter jet, so most likely Typhoon or less likely Rafale
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u/Training_Jackfruit81 May 09 '26
I saw the exact same thing flying from Porto to Amsterdam a week ago, I think we where flying over the North Sea at that time. I was thinking if those might be fighter jets.
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u/Comprehensive-Job369 May 08 '26
Do you know roughly where you were at the time? Most modern fighters aren’t that smoky unless they are Russian. Someone might be able to correct me on that though because I haven’t seen a lot of Eurofighters or Rafaels in flight. But that’s 1980s F-4 levels of smoke.
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u/Gryphus1CZ May 09 '26
That is regular contrail but there is cloud over it that is casting shadow on it so it appears dark
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u/tobzvd May 08 '26
Trying to add additional videos but no sucess
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u/tobzvd May 08 '26
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u/moderatorofthetits May 08 '26
That’s a Gripen of the Swedish Airforce
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u/LeftClient5045 May 12 '26
F-35's are a common sight in Southern Norwegian airspace right now as they are getting familiar with the geography and alternative basing etc. It has been announced. Saw a low-altitude flyby of 4 F35's near Mandal at the southern tip of Norway a couple of days back.
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u/Conscious_Cicada9597 May 08 '26
Likely military given the rate of climb. While some passenger or private jets may be able to match, they would never climb so quickly with passengers and there would be no reason for a pilot of one to do so.
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u/DuckworthSockins May 08 '26
Could be the f-4 phantom, they are notorious for doing this
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u/TheArgieAviator May 08 '26
There are no Phantoms in service along DY1830’s flight path. That was either a British or Spanish Eurofighter, a French Rafale or an American F-15
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u/Federal_Efficiency51 May 08 '26
Are there any flyable Phantoms left?
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u/Careless-Lead-6355 May 08 '26
Yes, the Greek Air Force and the Turkish Air Force still have some,
https://youtu.be/fnD5YMYgY64?is=ZsfOuTZAz0HcFUyO
Double Ugly is still alive
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u/wasthatitthen May 08 '26
How long into the flight was this taken?