American reconnaissance aircraft spotted at the borders of the Kaliningrad region
Strategic aircraft of the U.S. air force RC-135V scouted near the borders of the Kaliningrad region, follows from the data of the aviation resource PlaneRadar.
The aircraft with tail number 64-14846 flew from the air base Mildenhall in the UK. During the flight the aircraft was in the airspace of Poland.
over the past period, the activity of foreign reconnaissance aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles close to the Russian borders has increased significantly.
So, at the beginning of last week, RC-135V flew off the coast of Abkhazia, the Krasnodar region and the Crimea. The radar ability of the aircraft to allow him to explore, without violating the borders of Russia, and to collect data on the location of air defense systems in the region.
And on October 26 the Strategic UAV RQ-4B Global Hawk made along the Russian border 11-hour flight. He flew with the Italian air force base Sigonella in Sicily, and presumably five hours conducted reconnaissance near the border of the Kaliningrad region, while in the sky over Lithuania. Then the UAV made several passes along the border of the Leningrad and Pskov regions on the line from Tartu Estonia to the Gulf of Finland, And before returning to the base again cruised on the borders of the Kaliningrad region.