Seems to me there is obviously something the Feds do not want the public to see and that there may be some interaction they want to keep a lid on. That this covers such a wide swath of the East Coast and extends out to territorial waters and lasts through (so they say) at least 10/2 is beyond curious and concerning!
You people in this area, keep your eyes and ears open, pass along info as you are able.
Possibilities
1)stupidity. Like they are doing war games of some sort and they have people cheating by checking these systems.
2) Trying to hide something leaving - like Arms, troops, or other valuable material
3) trying to hide something coming, like Syrian "migrants", Foreign troops, or arms and military equipment.
4) trying to hide something being moved - like Military equipment or troops.
5) Trying to hide something happening in the area - like open conflict with foreign troops, weapons experiments, alien landing
6) a combination of the above.
Have fun guessing!
Fun tidbits form the comments
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2613588/Russian-spy-ship-spotted-Cuba-February-eavesdropping-East-Coast-Gulf-Mexico-month.htmlhttp://sputniknews.com/military/20150907/1026677441.htmlhttp://debka.com/article/24873/Russian-submarine-with-20-ICBMs-and-200-nuclear-warheads-is-sailing-to-Syriaand also this, which I probaly find the most plausible explanation (if it isn't all just BS. I am not in a position to know)
t'll be Growler 'NG' (New Generation) jammers being tested. Until now all USN Growlers have been using legacy jammers from the EA-6B Prowler program, but NG is at the peak of its Research Development Test & Evaluation (RDT&E) cycle and initial operational integration from 2017 through 2019. Australia ordered 12 of the NG Growlers which have already been built, but are in storage in the US until 2017, awaiting the NG EA system delivery. But aust also built another 12 F model Super Hornets that were pre-wired for the NG system during their production in 2010, so to turn them into full Growlers all you have to do is install the NG PODs and software - cost $35 million per plane to pre-wire them during construction.
But NG is not just a jammer system, it is also passive detection, targeting and attack system that goes way beyond what the F-22A and F-35A can already do electronically in that area, but it feeds its data in real time to both of those aircraft and the entire Network, including ships and NLOS artillery.
So a pretty major upgrade as it will effectively allow each Growler to act like a roving armed JSTARS analogue, with no comparable aircraft anywhere, in much the same way an F-35A's sensors and networking will have an effect like armed roving AWACs.
Note also that the only combat-loaded Western fighter so far that has managed to kill the F-22A in BVR combat exercises is the USN Growler. No one had expected it to be a top-tier 5th gen fighter killer. It's long range passive targeting system and EA attack could not be defeated by the F-22A's own EA, and it got too close to the Growler's AIM-120D and snuffed. No doubt the F-22A fleet have altered their tactics as a result of this lesson i.e. don't get close enough to be hit by a Growler. The problem is the Growler can easily defeat any AIM-120D sent its way by an F-22A, and has to get close to use and AIM-9X (RAAF is installing the AIM-9X Block II and III to make it a fully passive unjammable WVR and BVR attack capability with an IR FLIR detection pod that is cued by its long-range passive integrated detection and tracking system). Put a laser Directed Infra-Red Countermeasure (DIRCM) on the Growler and nothing will be able to hit it with an IR BVR/WVR missile either.
i.e. Growlers were designed to both kill S-300 and S-400 SAMs, and to be a 5th Gen J-20 fighter killer that can also prevent them from using their sensors, weapons and datalinks, and prevent them achieving their mission. In other words, the Growler is the core capability that enables the low observable attack and defense paradigm to operate with extremely high confidence and maximizes its capability.
For instance, when operating with growlers an F-35A will be able to carry both its internal and external weapons load of 15,446 lb of weapons (as opposed to only 4,670 lb of internal weapon load). Which means having Growlers present in the area means the F-35A can carry 330% more weight of attack weapons, from as early as Hour-2 of Day-1 of any a major air attack, and still not be targeted or shot down by SAMs or fighters, thus greatly accelerating the tempo of attacks and effects accumulation and rapid pinning-down of any IADS opponent.
In the late 1990s when this air power system-of-systems was being envisioned and designed the terms used then were a paradigm of 'Total Air Dominance', and 'Total Information Dominance'. Well the West has now produced it, on many levels, and is currently rolling it out, and other powers are not going to like it but they will not be capable of obtaining military dominance over the West, this side of 2050.
All of the States, companies and individuals who have been setting their jibs with that expectation in mind - guessed wrong. ;-)
Of course you don't need military dominance if you have insiders neuter your culture, corrupt institutions, import and protect foreigners in establishing a new culture and gain political control of the military infrastructure.
Good thing America would never fall for such obvious Trojan horses and Manchurian candidates.
