US and Swedish reconnaissance aircraft again conduct reconnaissance of the Kaliningrad region
According to their information, the strategic reconnaissance aircraft of the US Air Force RC-135W with the tail number 62-4139 and call sign ARVID99, departing from Mildenhall airbase in the UK, flew to the Kaliningrad region from Poland. For more than three hours he conducted radio reconnaissance along the Russian border, being in Polish airspace at an altitude of 9,4 thousand meters.
At the same time, a reconnaissance aircraft of the Swedish Air Force Gulfstream 4 with a tail number 102002 and the call sign SVF622, rising from the Malmen air base, which is located near Linköping, flew to the Russian coast in the south of the Baltic Sea from the sea. A Swedish aircraft carried out reconnaissance flight along the coast of the Kaliningrad region along an elongated ellipse, being at an altitude of approximately 12,5 thousand meters above the international waters of the Baltic Sea.
After departure from the UK, the flight route of the American intelligence officer ran over the Netherlands, Germany and Poland. In the past six months, these American intelligence officers almost every day conduct reconnaissance flights near the borders of Russia in the south of the Baltic Sea, flying both from Poland and from the Baltic Sea.
According to open sources, RC-135W airplanes are designed to intercept, record and analyze radio communications, dissect dislocations, composition, operating modes and characteristics of radio-electronic means of command and control, air defense and enemy aviation.
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