How many military aircraft are flying right now?

112 military aircraft are airborne and broadcasting a position worldwide right now. Many more fly with transponders off, so this is a floor, not a total.

Why can you see military aircraft at all?

Many military aircraft broadcast ADS-B or Mode S like any other aircraft, especially in civil airspace. Volunteer receivers pick those signals up. Aircraft flying with the transponder off are not visible.

Can I get an alert when a military aircraft flies near me?

Yes. Squawk for iPhone sends a push notification when a military aircraft enters an area around you. One alert area is free, and it works with the app closed.

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What military aircraft are flying right now?

112 military aircraft are airborne and broadcasting a position worldwide right now.

A live worldwide count of military aircraft broadcasting ADS-B or Mode S, from community receiver networks, re-checked every minute. Regions are rough boxes, not borders.

Military aircraft worldwide · checked within the last minute

112airborne and broadcasting · 84 more on the ground

Asia-Pacific · 44North America · 39Middle East · 18Europe · 11

Most common types in the air

Type	Code	Airborne
PC21	PC21	24
H60	H60	18
C30J	C30J	9
C17	C17	7
EC45	EC45	4
B350	B350	4
Unknown type	—	4
V22	V22	3
R135	R135	3
H47	H47	2
B737	B737	2
EC35	EC35	2
A400	A400	2
A332	A332	2
B77W	B77W	2

Highest right now

Callsign	Type	Altitude	Speed
A6-PFK	B77W	37,000 ft	491 kt
TUG3007	B737	36,000 ft	367 kt
NINJA86	C560	36,000 ft	333 kt
QAF3	A345	35,000 ft	532 kt
TRION03	B77W	35,000 ft	464 kt
MDUSA18	B762	34,000 ft	425 kt
ARMY116	—	32,975 ft	376 kt
RCH3225	C17	31,000 ft	499 kt
GAF247	A400	30,975 ft	384 kt
BOXER45	B737	29,625 ft	477 kt
@@@@@@@@	IL76	29,000 ft	401 kt
MRNR17	P8	28,000 ft	404 kt
ae6792	—	26,000 ft	427 kt
NINJA88	C560	26,000 ft	307 kt
HERKY53	C30J	25,000 ft	345 kt

Get alerted, not just informed

Squawk shows every one of these on a live map — military is never filtered out — and can push you an alert when one comes near you, even with the app closed.

What this can and can’t tell you

This is the military traffic that is broadcasting. Many military flights operate with transponders off, and some use anonymised identifiers, so the real number is always higher. Nothing here says why an aircraft is flying or what it is doing — only its type, position, altitude and speed.

Alerts fire on any aircraft entering an area you draw — not only a flight you look up.
Military aircraft are never filtered from the map.
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Live positions come from volunteer-run ADS-B receivers, shared as open data under the ODbL licence. An aircraft is visible here only if its transponder is broadcasting and a receiver hears it, so coverage is dense over North America and Europe and thin over oceans, deserts and mountains. Not for navigation or operational use. More about our data.

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