a pair of Russian fighter jets conducted an intercept of US Air Force b-52h stratofortress
bomber over international waters of the Baltic Sea on Wednesday in Russian social media was
released images showed intercepts of US Air Force b-52h stratofortress bomber US Air Force number
61 - zero zero one three short side number 1013 code la callsign Aero 32 assigned to the 2nd Bomb
Wing two russian chats su-27 have forced a USB 52h bomber to move away from the Russian border
the Defense Ministry told the media on Thursday the b-52 was flying over international waters
of the Baltic Sea russia's airspace control means identified at far away from the border
and put it under observation to su-27 jets of the air defense forces were ordered to identify
and escort the aircraft after the strategic bomber b-52h changed course to move away from the Russian
state border that jets were returned to base the Defense Ministry statement says according to a
statement released by the US Air Force a bomber Task Force of b-52 Stratofortress Airmen and
support equipment from the second Bomb Wing based out of barksdale air force base louisiana arrived
at oil Air Force Fairford late last week and has been participating in various training missions
across Europe according to the service these missions had been closely coordinated with the
governments of the respective countries in the NATO enhanced forward presence units operating
there said in a statement the aircraft arrived in theatres on March 14th to 15th under temporarily
operating out of Royal Air Force Fairford the deployment of strategic comers to the UK helps
exercise RAF Fairford as the US air forces in Europe's forward training location for bombers
on Monday four b-52s conducted flights to several places in europe including to the norwegian sea
the baltic sea estonia and the mediterranean sea greece the u.s. air force said this is the
largest deployment of US strategic aviation in europe since the operation against iraq in 2003
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