Strategic bomber Boeing B-52H Stratofortress US air force close to the borders of Leningrad region, follows from the data of the monitoring of the resource Plane Radar.

This Aircraft can transport and among them nuclear weapons.

according to the information portal, the Stratofortress went to the border of the Kaliningrad region, simulated bombing bases of the Baltic fleet, and then headed towards St. Petersburg.

While in the airspace of Estonia, the bomber approached the Northern capital on 191 kilometer, informs the Plane of the Radar.

Flight B-52H took place at the height of about eight thousand meters.

over the past period, the activity of foreign reconnaissance aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles at the borders of Russia and the Russian military facilities abroad has grown. They appear periodically over the Baltic sea, in the Crimea and the Krasnodar territory, and also close to the Russian bases in the Syrian Arab Republic.

last Friday Stratofortress also simulated the bombing of the Baltic fleet base. The aircraft flew with the included transponder above the neutral waters, and turned back immediately afterward, as it took on escort duty vehicles Russian air defense. On the following day, the United States transferred to the British base a few B-52H.



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