American aircraft conducted reconnaissance near the Crimea
The US air force conducted reconnaissance Near the coast of the Crimea. About said resource monitoring PlaneRadar.
Radionuclidic RC-135V tail number and call sign 64-14846 MITE21 at 08: 35 Moscow time took off from an air base Souda Bay in Greece. At 08: 45 Moscow time Boeing came to the Black sea, after which he embarked on a reconnaissance flight off the coast of the Crimea.
The aircraft several times circled the border of the Peninsula, then returned to the airfield placement. RC-135V cruised the area for About three hours.
over the past period, the activity of foreign reconnaissance aircraft, such as U.S. aircraft near Russian borders has increased. So, at the end of last week, near the Crimean Peninsula noticed two aircraft of the U.S. air force: Radionuclidic RC-135V and the RQ-4B-30 Global Hawk. In addition, in the Kaliningrad region detected electronic reconnaissance Aircraft of the air forces of Sweden GIV SP.
In just the past year, units of radio-technical troops of HQs found and escorted over 980 thousand aircraft. About three thousand of them - foreign military aircraft, of which more than 1000 - reconnaissance aircraft. Duty forces were set in readiness number one more than 4 thousand times.
on frequent reconnaissance operations near state borders, first drew the attention of the Ministry of defence. The Ministry urged Washington to abandon such operations, however, the Ministry of defense has refused.