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Open Skies: Russian recce airplane in flight over the United States

Moscow, Russia - A TU-154 to perform a mission flying for 4250 km over the American homeland taking images to be provided to Pentagon as well

A Russian Tupolev Tu-154 starts today monitoring part of US territory within the "Open Skies" agreements, which schedule overflights over sensitive areas in order to verify the observance of a series of deals concerning security and defence and ensure higher transparency within the Russian-American relations. The airplane, with Russian, Belorussian and US personnel on board, will perform an overflight...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 122402
Rome, Italy, 06/20/2005 13:58
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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