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...

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.

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.