US reconnaissance aircraft flew near Russia's Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad
On Tuesday, August 9, 2016 another U.S. Air Force plane designed to identify and intercept anti-aircraft radar radiation systems flew to the border of Russia near the Baltic Sea.
Following the U.S. strategic reconnaissance aircraft RC-135U, which on Tuesday, August 9, 2016 approached to the Kaliningrad region, another electronic intelligence aircraft of the United States Air Force (USAF) RC-135W few to the Russian borders in the Baltic Sea, to track the movement of military aircraft.
According to unconfirmed data, the U.S. Air Force tanker aircraft KC-135R has also been sent to the Baltic Sea area, where it can be used to increase the duration of flights of U.S. reconnaissance aircraft near the Russian coast.
A reconnaissance aircraft made a flight to the borders of the Kaliningrad region at the height of 10,200 meters from the Baltic Sea on Tuesday morning, August 9, 2016. The reconnaissance aircraft was brought in from the U.S.A. to the U.K.’s Mildenhall airbase last week. This is the second flight of the American aircraft to the Russian border in the Baltic Sea.
According to open sources, the strategic reconnaissance aircraft of the United States Air Force is designed to identify and intercept anti-aircraft radar radiation systems. The collected data will be used for the development of new and modification of existing early warning systems for the U.S. Air Force to suppress enemy radar stations, as well as the development of anti-radiation missiles to destroy radar systems.
Another American reconnaissance aircraft RC-135W, that departed from Royal Air Force Base Mildenhall in the United Kingdom on Tuesday, August, 9 2016, is designed for strategic electronic reconnaissance, radio interception and monitoring.