US UAVs are intensively spying on Russia's western border.
The U.S. Air Force's RQ-4B strategic unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been conducting reconnaissance along Russia's western border, PlaneRadar reports.
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| RQ-4B strategic unmanned aerial vehicle. |
According to PlaneRadar, the aircraft with tail number 10-2043 departed from Sigonella air base in Italy on Sunday morning, then flew for about 5.5 hours along the Kaliningrad border over Lithuania.
Next, the UAV flew over Latvia into Estonian airspace and spent 4.5 hours scouting the western border of the Pskov and Leningrad regions.
On its return journey, the RQ-4B completed a series of flights along the Kaliningrad region's border for at least an hour before returning to base.
Recently, the activity of foreign reconnaissance aircraft and UAVs near the Russian border has increased significantly. There are frequent reconnaissance flights around Crimea and the Krasnodar region, as well as over the Baltic Sea.
In total, over the past year, Russian radio-technical units have detected and escorted more than 980,000 airborne devices. Approximately 3,000 of these were foreign fighter jets, with over 1,000 being reconnaissance aircraft.
