Tap the button, allow location once, and we’ll list the military aircraft broadcasting within about 50 nautical miles of you — nearest first, with altitude.
Your location is used once, rounded to about 1 km before it leaves this page, and only to look up nearby aircraft. It isn’t saved to any account.
Don’t want to keep checking? Squawk for iPhone sends a push when a military aircraft enters an area you draw — even with the app closed. There are no ads.
If a military aircraft near you is broadcasting a position, the list above shows its type and how low it is. Nothing an aircraft broadcasts says what its flight is for, so this page can’t tell you why it is there. Routine reasons include training flights, transits between bases, tanker and transport runs, and flyovers for public events. Many military aircraft fly with the transponder off, and those never appear on any public tracker — a quiet list is not proof of a quiet sky.
Each place page also keeps a log of the military aircraft seen there earlier today.
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.
Squawk is the live flight tracker for people who look up — on iPhone, with alerts that reach your Lock Screen even when the app is closed.
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