U.S. military aircraft conducted a reconnaissance near Hamim Russian airbase and naval base in the port of Tartus. About this informed the data of the aviation resource PlaneRadar.

Patrol anti-submarine aircraft of the US Navy P-8A Poseidon tail number 168857 rose into the sky from the air base NATO Sigonella in Sicily. At 16: 10 GMT the aircraft was seen near the Syrian Latakia and the coast of Lebanon. The flight was at an altitude of 6, 6 kilometers above the ground, the agility of movement was 732, 7 kilometers per hour. Boeing has flown a few times the specified territory.

foreign military aircraft are periodically noticed at the borders of Russia and the Russian military facilities abroad. Experts, for example, emphasize the high activity of American intelligence. In just the past year, units of radio-technical troops of Russian VKS found and escorted over 980 thousand aircraft, and on-duty forces were set in readiness number one more than 4 thousand times.

the defense Ministry urged the US to abandon such operations, however, the Ministry of defense has refused.

According to the expert of the Center Voyenno-political journalism of Boris Rozhina, this practice is standard in the US for at least 2015 and will continue. The strategic course of U.S. capital defines the Russian Federation as one of the main opponents, but because every year American defense Ministry allocates for such flights more and more money.



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