American warplane conducts reconnaissance flight near annexed Crimea
On Saturday, a U.S. Navy anti-submarine aircraft made a reconnaissance flight near the Crimean peninsula on the Black Sea, reports Interfax, citing aviation websites.
According to their information, the U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon aircraft, with tail number 168437 and call sign PS026, departed from the Naval Air Base Sigonella on the Italian island of Sicily and patrolled in the area to the southwest of Sevastopol for several hours.
After taking off from Italy, the plane’s route took it over Greece and Bulgaria on the way to the Black Sea.
American reconnaissance flights this week were recorded in the south of the Baltic Sea.
On Thursday and Friday, a U.S. Boeing RC-135W strategic reconnaissance aircraft with the number 62-4134, which took off from the Mildenhall airbase in the UK, flew for several hours over the land and sea borders of the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation.
Additionally, on November 30, the U.S. Air Force RQ-4A Global Hawk, an unmanned surveillance aircraft, took off from the airbase in Sicily and conducted a reconnaissance flight for more than 12 hours near the borders of the Leningrad and Pskov regions of the Russian Federation.
On Saturday, a Russian Su-30 fighter unsafely crossed in front of a U.S. P-8A reconnaissance aircraft over the Black Sea.