The US strategic reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle was spotted in the Black Sea. It has been reported “Lenta.ru” with a link to data from the flight tracking portal Flightradar.
According to the service, the American RQ-4B Global Hawk with the call sign FORTE10 took off from the NATO naval airbase Sigonella on the island of Sicily on December 12 and approached the coast of Crimea at around 11:00 Moscow time. It was stated that the UAV was deployed on a straight line about 100 kilometers from the peninsula.
Formerly at the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reporteda Russian MiG-31 escorting a Norwegian P-3C Orion reconnaissance aircraft over the Barents Sea. According to the RF Ministry of Defense, violation of the Russian State border was not allowed.
On October 31, an American Challenger 650 reconnaissance aircraft patrolled Romanian airspace. knowledgeable A set of Russian media citing data from the Flightradar web service. The same plane was seen in Poland before.