A Royal Air Force RC-135W plane has completed a surveillance journey from NATO's most southerly point in the Mediterranean to the Barents Sea north of Norway.
A United Kingdom spy plane carried out a landmark flight along the western border of Russia earlier this month, which saw it complete a full transit of NATO's eastern flank.Newsweek's map, displaying Coordinated Universal Time, or UTC, traces the flight of a Royal Air Force RC-135W reconnaissance aircraft, also known as Rivet Joint, on October 11 as it took off from the southernmost point of Greece on a flight to the northern tip of Finland.
It executed an aerial refueling over Poland with a KC-135T tanker aircraft sent by the U.S. Air Force.The U.S. Air Force said the Rivet Joint 'supports the United Kingdom's national defense as well as NATO operations by providing real-time intelligence to military commanders and allied forces.' The KC-135T was sent from Mildenhall air base in eastern England.
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