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@theaviationist
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762subscribers
+17 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001236176279 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @theaviationist |
| Created | Between 1 March 2018 and 31 July 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 18 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 7 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 18 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/theaviationist |
International news — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 20 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 78% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 18 Sept 2026, 08:00 | 762 | +4 |
| 10 Sept 2026, 01:01 | 758 | +6 |
| 31 Aug 2026, 19:15 | 752 | +1 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 05:28 | 751 | +1 |
| 15 Aug 2026, 16:08 | 750 | +5 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 02:02 | 745 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 17:56 | 745 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 30 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 7 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
19 reactions across 10 posts, in 6 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 47.4% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 9 | 47.4% | |
| 👍 | 5 | 26.3% | |
| 😢 | 2 | 10.5% | |
| 💩 | 1 | 5.26% | |
| 😨 | 1 | 5.26% | |
| 🤷♂ | 1 | 5.26% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 10 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 19 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 30 July 2026 to 7 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Iran Shows Off Wreckage of U.S. Aircraft Lost During Operation Epic Fury Iranian state media has released images of a display of aircraft wreckage from the U.S.-Iran war, including remnants of DUDE 44, an F-15E Strike Eagle which can now be confirmed without doubt as airframe 00-3000. Story: https://theaviationist.com/2026/08/08/iran-aircraft-wreckage-epic-fury/
😨1
GBU-75 JDAM Long Range Cleared for Production The U.S. Air Force awarded Boeing a procurement contract for GBU-75 JDAM Long Range kits, clearing the initial production for the U.S. Navy. Story: https://theaviationist.com/2026/08/07/gbu-75-jdam-long-range-cleared-for-production/
China Shows H-6 Bomber Carrying Nuclear-Capable JL-1 ALBM China released images of the H-6 bomber carrying the JL-1 air-launched ballistic missile as part of promotional features marking the 99th anniversary of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Story: https://theaviationist.com/2026/08/06/china-h-6-bomber-nuclear-jl-1-albm/
Virginia Class Submarines with New Payload Module to Receive SSGN Designation Beginning with the USS Arizona, 19 new boats in the U.S. Navy’s Virginia class of nuclear powered attack submarines will officially be referred to as SSGNs to reflect the boost in cruise missile capacity offered by the new Virginia Payload Module (VPM). Story: https://theaviationist.com/2026/08/06/virginia-class-ssgn-designation/
❤1
Exclusive: The USAF T-1A Jayhawk Poses For Its Final Air-to-Air Photo Shoot Ahead of the type’s planned retirement from Vance AFB, T-1A 93-0654 took to the skies over Oklahoma for one last aerial photography mission with The Aviationist contributor Greg “Cactus” Davis. Story: https://theaviationist.com/2026/08/04/exclusive-the-usaf-t-1a-jayhawk-poses-for-its-final-air-to-air-photo-shoot/
USMC VMFA-115 Sets Stage for Reactivation with First F-35C Flight After being disbanded in November 2023 following the last flight with legacy F/A-18C/D Hornets, VMFA-115 is preparing for the reactivation later this year as an F-35C squadron. Story: https://theaviationist.com/2026/08/05/usmc-vmfa-115-first-f-35c-flight/
Bent Wing Beauty: How the F4U Corsair got its Distinctive Look Despite the ability to create a more streamlined and aerodynamic design with inline engines, the U.S. Navy stayed with the radial engine design, asking Pratt & Whitney to develop the largest and most powerful radial aircraft engine at the time. Story here: https://theaviationist.com/2026/08/03/how-the-f4u-corsair-got-its-distinctive-look/
❤3🤷♂1
X-62 VISTA Conducts AI-Controlled Intercepts with IRST Pod AI agents, using data from a Legion Infrared Search and Track pod, controlled the X-62 VISTA and executed 27 autonomous intercepts of airborne targets throughout eight flights. Story: https://theaviationist.com/2026/08/04/x-62-vista-ai-controlled-intercepts-irst/
Bent Wing Beauty: How the F4U Corsair got its Distinctive Look Despite the ability to create a more streamlined and aerodynamic design with inline engines, the U.S. Navy stayed with the radial engine design, asking Pratt & Whitney to develop the largest and most powerful radial aircraft engine at the time. Story here: https://theaviationist.com/2026/08/03/how-the-f4u-corsair-got-its-distinctive-look/
❤3
A-10 Flies Armed Airborne Escort in Exercise with a Ballistic Missile Submarine The Ohio class ballistic missile submarine USS Nebraska (SSBN 739) received an airborne escort while surfaced in the Pacific Ocean, exercising with a U.S. Air Force A-10C Thunderbolt II. Story: https://theaviationist.com/2026/08/04/a10-armed-airborne-escort-uss-nebraska/
👍2
KC-135 Damaged In Fatal Mid Air Collision Transits Home with Donor Tail The surviving KC-135R Stratotanker from the incident over Iraq in March which saw another Stratotanker lost with six fatalities has been repaired with a replacement vertical stabilizer taken from another aircraft. Story: https://theaviationist.com/2026/08/02/kc-135-damaged-mid-air-collision-donor-tail/ H/T @havoc_aviation for the shots and inf…
👍1
France Receives First NH90 Special Operations Helicopter Airbus delivered to the French military the first NH90 Caïman Standard 2, a specifically modified variant of the helicopter for special operations. Story: https://theaviationist.com/2026/08/01/france-receives-first-nh90-special-operations-helicopter/
👍2
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @theaviationist. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
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“The Aviationist” (@theaviationist), 762 subscribers as measured 18 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/theaviationist.
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