The Russian aircraft flew over U.S. military bases
Videoconferencing aircraft Tu-154M LK-1 flew over the territory of the United States, inform the data of the monitoring resources.
As informs portal the Drive, the side with the photography equipment and radar monitoring was carried out a reconnaissance flight at the time of the open skies Treaty.
Tu-154 took off from the base of great falls in Montana and for several hours cruised the West country - in Nevada and California. For example, he went around the bases Lemoore, China Lake and Fort Irwin landfill and flew over the territory of the bases Edwards, Creech and Nellis.
Next, the crew of the aircraft was observed on NTTR, and then over the plant for the production of nuclear weapons at Yucca flats. In addition, according to media reports, the airliner flew near Area 51 - a remote unit air force base Edwards.
Most of the flight, the ship cruised at a height of just over 4 kilometers above ground. In the area of the NTTR, the Aircraft climbed to an altitude of about nine kilometers.
OSCE members signed the open skies Treaty in 1992. The document was one of the measures to strengthen confidence in the European Union after the cold war. According to the document, countries are able to conduct reconnaissance flights over the territory of other member States and to collect data on their troops. The contract is valid from 2002, it includes the vast majority of NATO countries, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and neutral Sweden and Finland.
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