Live on the globe now: 46 tracked
This layer plots military aircraft that are airborne and broadcasting their position right now, as points on the live 3D globe. The feed comes from adsb.lol, a volunteer network of ground stations running ADS-B and MLAT receivers, and is pulled from its dedicated military endpoint. What makes this source distinct from the general aircraft layer (which uses adsb.fi) is that adsb.lol is deliberately unfiltered: it does not block or hide airframes, so military jets, tankers, transports and surveillance aircraft that are suppressed on many commercial trackers can still show up here when a feeder picks them up. Each aircraft carries what the transponder and the community database expose: ICAO hex, callsign, registration, type code, barometric altitude, ground speed, heading and squawk. Spin and zoom the globe to see where activity is clustered, then click any aircraft to deep-dive its details and open its full track on globe.adsb.lol. The data refreshes roughly every 12 seconds, so positions are close to real time but limited to areas where volunteers have receivers, mostly Europe and North America. This is one of about 29 live layers you can solo or combine on a single interactive Earth.
Data source: adsb.lol
From adsb.lol, a community-run network of volunteer ADS-B and MLAT receivers. We poll its dedicated military feed (api.adsb.lol/v2/mil), which returns aircraft flagged as military across the network.
The aircraft layer uses adsb.fi for all civil and military traffic. This layer is a focused, separate feed from adsb.lol, which is intentionally unfiltered and does not block airframes, so it often surfaces military aircraft that commercial trackers hide.
Positions update about every 12 seconds. Coverage depends on where volunteers have receivers, so it is densest over Europe and North America and sparse over oceans and remote areas. An aircraft only appears while it is transmitting and within range of a feeder.
Deep-dive inspect shows the ICAO hex, callsign, registration, type, barometric altitude, ground speed, heading and squawk, plus a link to the aircraft's full live track on globe.adsb.lol.