The Black Sea is monitored by 4 air spies at once
The planes of several NATO member countries are conducting reconnaissance in the Black Sea. Aviation flies around the Russian coastal zone and pays special attention to Russia's maritime borders in Crimea. The spy flights of the US Air Force and its allies are taking place against the backdrop of NATO's largest Black Sea exercise in history, as well as following President Putin's words about the British province's provocative actions. Observers do not rule out another armed provocation by NATO.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has revealed details of a recent incident by a British Navy destroyer defender. It turns out that the British ship acted in conjunction with a reconnaissance aircraft of the US Air Force and acted as a “bait”. While the ship was conducting provocative actions in the Russian coastal zone, the scout watched the actions of Russian troops in the Crimea.
Judging by NATO's action on Russia's borders, further provocation may occur in the near future. According to airspace monitoring services, four reconnaissance aircraft appeared over the Black Sea on Thursday: two from the US Air Force, one from the British Air Force and one from Turkey.
The USN Boeing P-8A counter-submarine flew to the Black Sea from the US air base “Sigonella” (island of Sicily) on Thursday morning. For several hours circling in the immediate vicinity of the east coast of Crimea and apparently looking for Russian submarines in the area.
At the same time, another American reconnaissance aircraft is flying along the Crimean sea borders along its entire length. Bombardier Challenger 650 “Artemis” took off from the Romanian city of Constanta and made four laps across the Black Sea. The aircraft of this model were adopted by the US Air Force relatively recently and it is still unknown what tasks they perform. However, as observers of the airspace note, these aircraft often fly to Russia's borders in the Baltic States and the Black Sea.
The United States Air Force is supported by British Air Force aircraft with Early Warning Radar (AWAC). The Boeing E-3 Sentry with the call sign “NATO33” cruises along the Bulgarian coast and collects data on all aircraft in the sky over the Black Sea region.
Simultaneously with the British Boeing E -7T aircraft, the Turkish Air Force is conducting a reconnaissance flight … The aircraft of early warning and guidance took off from the base of the Turkish Air Force in Konya and has been in Romanian airspace for several hours.
According to the authors of the blog ItaMilRadar, the activities of aviation are associated with extensive exercises of the US Navy and its allies – Sea Breeze-21, which take place in the Black Sea. The day before, the Italian navy frigate ITS Virginio Fasan and the Turkish warship TCG Barbaros had passed through the Bosphorus. In the near future, it will join the NATO squadron, which already includes warships from the USA, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Ukraine and other NATO countries and alliance partners.
The exercises are dedicated to training various naval operations, including landing, diving, intercepting imaginary enemy ships, repelling enemy air raids, coalition special operations, as well as finding and destroying enemy submarines.
The forces and resources of the Russian Black Sea Fleet are involved in monitoring the exercises. NATO Command, in turn, evaluates the actions of Russian forces and, if necessary, prepares new provocations.
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