US Air Force reconnaissance aircraft approached the borders of the Kaliningrad and Leningrad regions
A U.S. Air Force strategic reconnaissance aircraft approached the borders of the Kaliningrad region and the Leningrad region on Tuesday, as reported by Interfax, citing websites that track the movement of military aircraft.
It is noted that a RC-135W reconnaissance plane departed from the Mildenhall Air Base in the UK, followed a course along the Baltic coast of the Kaliningrad region to Estonia and into the Tartu district, where it also made a flight near the border of the Leningrad Region. A similar reconnaissance flight was also conducted by a U.S. reconnaissance plane on October 15th.
In addition, on Tuesday, NATO’s E-3A Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft, departed from the Geilenkirchen Air Base in Germany, and made a reconnaissance flight near the Black Sea. According to the available information, it conducted surveillance of the Crimea from Romanian airspace. Its radio electronic intelligence equipment allows it to conduct data interception and monitoring from a distance of up to hundreds of kilometers from the territories and objects of interest.
In the past few weeks, the number of U.S. reconnaissance planes approaching the Russian borders has increased sharply. These flights are the most frequent near the Crimean coast, the Kaliningrad region, as well as near Russian bases in Syria and around Russian warships stationed in the eastern Mediterranean.