MOSCOW, June 5 – RIA Novosti. The American strategic reconnaissance drone RQ-4B Global Hawk with the call sign Forte12 is flying in the Black Sea approximately 250 kilometers from Yalta.
Military expert Alexander Zimovsky: (https://t.me/zimovskyAL/30865)
250 km from Yalta this is practically the Turkish coast (in any case, territorial waters).
Today, the Americans are using new tactics for flying AWACS RQ-4B Global Hawk in the direction of Crimea and the Azov-Black Sea coast of the Russian Federation. Operators bring the UAV to the calculated point of the reconnaissance route and turn off the identification transponder. This makes it difficult for us to identify the aircraft.
In the event of a hypothetical threat of our interception, the Global Hawk is immediately withdrawn under the protection of the territorial airspace of Turkey/Romania/Bulgaria.
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