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20 of March, 14:04

Nuclear bomber of the U.S. air force approached the Russian border Strategic bomber of the U.S. air force close to the borders of the Kaliningrad region, follows from the data of the monitoring of the resource Plane Radar.

at eleven: 45 Boeing B-52H Stratofortress, tail number 60-0024 took off from an airbase, Fairford. At 13: 20, he worked a conventional attack on the base of the Baltic fleet.

The flight was at an altitude of about eight thousand meters.

Boeing B-52H Stratofortress -Strategic bomber, standing on the armament of the U.S. air force since 1955. The aircraft is able to carry different types of weapons, and among them nuclear.

over the past period of time, the activity of foreign reconnaissance aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles at the borders of Russia has grown. So, the first day of the week Boeing B-52H Stratofortress noticed at the borders of the Leningrad region. Then the American pilots also simulated the bombing of the base of the Baltic fleet, approaching during the flight to St. Petersburg at a distance of 191 kilometers.



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