During January 29, three American reconnaissance aircraft were spotted near Russian borders. This is reported by the monitoring Internet service PlaneRadar.
Our website has already written about how the P-8A Poseidon US Navy anti-submarine patrol aircraft tried to fly over the Russian part of the Baltic, but was successfully driven off by the Russian Su-27.
But as it turned out, this was not the end. According to the portal, the Boeing RC-135V also took off from Mildenhall airbase in Britain, which was later recorded by observation means in the airspace near the Kaliningrad region. In addition, the RQ-4B Global Hawk UAV flew from the Sigonella base in Italy and cruised along the borders of the Leningrad and Pskov regions.
According to domestic military experts, lately, the activity of Western reconnaissance aircraft near the borders of Russia has increased significantly. They conduct flights near the western frontiers and near the Crimea and the Krasnodar Territory.
For example, over the past year, units of the radio-technical forces of the VKS discovered and escorted more than 980,000 air objects. About three thousand of them are foreign combat aircraft, of which more than a thousand are reconnaissance aircraft. Duty interception forces were alerted number one over four thousand times.
