American reconnaissance plane approached the Russian-Baltic border
A strategic reconnaissance plane RC-135V of the US Air force approached the coastal line of the Russian Kaliningrad region on Sunday, as reported by the Western aviation portals monitoring the routes of military aircraft.
The reconnaissance jet with tail number 64-14844 and call sign ELGIN33 departed from the RAF Mildenhall airbase in the UK and is now on a NATO mission flight in the southern Baltic.
According to Swedish aviation sites, a Russian Su-27 was scrambled from the Kaliningrad airbase to intercept the NATO jet.
The American reconnaissance plane was flying with its transponder on and was visible to radar. The length of the flight of RC-135 was approximately 10 hours. The aircraft stayed near the Russian border for two hours.
A similar incident occured a few days ago when an American Air force RC-135W jet flew near the costal line of the Kaliningrad region.