If de Gaulle is turning off AIS, it stands to reason that it's also turning off the transponders in the air wing.

The US tried this with their Venezuela raid. It resulted in a tanker almost hitting a passenger plane twice in two days. [0]

Turning off AIS while allowing civilian traffic is incredibly risky, and creating a huge no-fly zone in the Med is politically tricky.

[0]: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/16/americas/venezuela-near-c...

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vntok 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not at all, depends on the mission. In fact you can spot yesterday's location of the ship right now on flightradar.

It was patrolling ~100km below Cyprus's main southern city.

Move the timeline to yesterday, find a non-Boeing military plane in that zone, enable flight traces and keep trying planes until you see an ovoidal pattern circling around "nothing"... but that nothingness moves over time.m; that's the ship.

	▲	kergonath an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> In fact you can spot yesterday's location of the ship right now on flightradar. No need to go that far. Macron did press conferences in Cyprus and on the Charles de Gaulle. You just need a passing glance at the headlines of a French newspaper. Or any decent international news channel (granted, that’s a bit tricky in the US).
	▲	1970-01-01 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I checked - nothing but commercial air: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?replay=2026-03-19-02:31&lat=...

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kjkjadksj 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Maybe, maybe not. When the US did their venezuela maduro operation they turned on adsb on f15e for whatever reason. And only turned it on for like a portion of the mission so maybe that wasn’t intentional.