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Steffan Watkins 

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Steffan Watkins 

@steffanwatkins

I'm a writer and research consultant specializing in tracking ships and planes using publicly available information. patreon.com/SteffanWatkins

Montréal / Ottawa, Canada 🇨🇦

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Joined July 2008

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Steffan Watkins 
@steffanwatkins
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🇬🇧 The entire RN/RAF Merlin helicopter fleet has been grounded since June 3rd's tragic crash, ten days ago. Not one British news outlet has told the public that yet.
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Steffan Watkins 
@steffanwatkins
Jun 9
🇬🇧 Three Royal Navy members died when their Merlin HC.4 crashed while training on June 3, 2026. Several publicly knowable details were not in the articles published by BBC News, The Guardian, Sky News, The Independent, Daily Mail, and The Telegraph, so I wrote a backgrounder.
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@steffanwatkins
Oct 23, 2025
This is incorrect framing being fed to 1.6M followers. These flights are not a middle finger to Maduro. They are not strike rehearsals. They are radar bait. They are building their list of targets and updating them as air defences move around and try to hide. None will survive.
OSINTdefender
@sentdefender
Oct 23, 2025
Two U.S. Air Force B-1B “Lancer” Long-Range Heavy Bombers, (BART21) and (BART22), have appeared now on flight radar over the Southern Caribbean, roughly 50 miles off the coast of Venezuela. The bombers appear to be conducting strike rehearsals, likely in preparation for future
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Steffan Watkins 
@steffanwatkins
Apr 18, 2022
🚨 🚨 🚨 BREAKING UPDATE 🚨 🚨 🚨 "A Google spokesperson got in touch with Ars to tell us that it hasn't actually changed anything with regards to blurring out sensitive sites in Russia, so perhaps none of us were looking closely until now." #OSINT #RUSSIA #BREAKINGNEWS #BREAKING
Ars Technica
@arstechnica
Apr 18, 2022
Russia’s military is now on full display in Google Maps satellite view arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… by @drgitlin
Steffan Watkins 
@steffanwatkins
Oct 4, 2024
Hello. You had my curiosity, now you have my attention.
NATO AWACS
@NATOAWACS
Oct 3, 2024
✈️ 🇬🇷 AWACS lead the way during #RamsteinFlag24 Since 30 Sept., the Hellenic Airbase in Andravida, has been alive with roars of jets during @NATO_AIRCOM’s first flag exercise. Just north at FOB Aktion, NATO and French AWACS aircraft provide crucial support for the exercise.
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Steffan Watkins 
@steffanwatkins
Dec 19, 2023
🇨🇦⚔️The Canadian Armed Forces, to combat the threat posed to shipping in the Red Sea, is sending 3 officers. 🫡
National Defence
@NationalDefence
Dec 19, 2023
Minister Blair announced that Canada will participate in Combined Maritime Forces’ #OpPROSPERITYGUARDIAN, to protect the free flow of commerce and safety of navigation into the Red Sea and Western Gulf of Aden. canada.ca.mcas.ms/en/department-…
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Steffan Watkins 
@steffanwatkins
Dec 16, 2022
Elon Musk's plane is going to be the most publicised plane in aviation tracking history. Bots. Web sites. Facebook. Instagram. Mastodon. It is *everywhere*. Remember to block the sock accounts which are trying to claim tracking the plane is a threat to his security. It is not.
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Steffan Watkins 
@steffanwatkins
Feb 2, 2022
🇨🇦 Canadians can vote with their wallet and choose to not spend their money at @HolidayInn, which is supporting the #FluTrucksClan by providing them showers, and a headquarters, to stage their attack on #Ottawa. #HolidayInn refuses to comment. #BoycottHolidayInn #HolidayOut
Steffan Watkins 
@steffanwatkins
Oct 27, 2020
Replying to @Hogan80Hogan and @AndrewFeinberg
He is a terrorist, enabled and advised by terrorists. All of them have to go.
Steffan Watkins 
@steffanwatkins
May 3, 2024
Replying to @CanadianArmy
➧ Which stakeholders were at the project's kickoff? ➧ Who asked for this? ➧ What was the deficiency that this change addressed? ➧ Why was this given priority over other projects? ➧ How much did this project cost the department? ➧ What KPI are you using to judge success?
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Steffan Watkins 
@steffanwatkins
Jun 21, 2023
Replying to @Allat_Man
American, obvs.
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Steffan Watkins 
@steffanwatkins
Jul 3, 2019
There are so many things wrong with what the #USAF is doing here, that are very much not evident to the casual observer. 1) The RC-135 has changed its unique transponder number to 730000 (hex), an Iranian assigned code. So, the USAF is impersonating an Iranian plane.
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@steffanwatkins
Jun 12, 2024
Replying to @AlexLuck9
I'm pretty sure their escort is to protect the Russian Navy from Americans. 😂
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Steffan Watkins 
@steffanwatkins
Apr 27, 2024
🙄 You have got to be kidding me.
Foreign Policy CAN
@CanadaFP
Apr 26, 2024
Since March 26, we have helped close to 700 Canadians, permanent residents and their family members leave #Haiti with assisted departures, including over a dozen foreign nationals.
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Steffan Watkins 
@steffanwatkins
Jun 25, 2025
Replying to @HeerJeet
You missed the sexual predator part.
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