A U.S. air force plane noticed at the Western borders of Russia. About this informed the data monitoring resources. Radionuclidic RC-135V Rivet Joint tail number 64-14845 took off from an air base Mildenhall in the UK and moved to the Gulf of Finland. At 16: 00 GMT, cruising in the skies over Estonia, the aircraft scouted the Western borders of the Leningrad and Pskov regions. Boeing has flown a few times the specified territory. Flight altitude was 9, 4 kilometers above the ground, the agility of the RC-135V - 534, 3 kilometers per hour. over the past period, the activity of foreign reconnaissance aircraft near Russian borders has increased. The most notable work of the American aircraft. As said the Professor in the Department of comparative politics RUDN Yuriy Pochta, an increased interest in intelligence gathering on Russia are obvious. According to the expert of the Center Voyenno-political journalism of Boris Rozhina, this practice is standard in USA and will continue in the future. The strategic course of the Pentagon defines Moscow As one of the main opponents, but because each year the us war Department allocates for such flights more and more drew the attention of the analyst. In just the past year, units of radio-technical troops of Russian VKS found and escorted over 980 thousand aircraft, of which more than 1000 - reconnaissance aircraft. Duty forces were set in readiness number one more than 4 thousand times. <span style="color:darkgray