Since the aborted June coup attempt in Russia by now-assassinated Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, the United States and the United Kingdom have been escalating their aerial surveillance of Russian, Belorussian and Wagner Group forces in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. Their activity is…
Since the aborted June coup attempt in Russia by now-assassinated Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, the United States and the United Kingdom have been escalating their aerial surveillance of Russian, Belorussian and Wagner Group forces in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. Their activity is necessary because other NATO member states either lack the capability or, as in France and Germany's case, the cost-willingness to support this intelligence effort.
When it comes to spying on Russian territory, the targets are the Kaliningrad exclave wedged between Poland and Lithuania and Russian territory east of Estonia. While U.S. P-8 Poseidons regularly monitor Russian Baltic Fleet activity, the two most important aircraft are the U.S. Air Force E-8 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System, or JSTARS, and the aforementioned British RAF RC-135 Rivet Joint. Both aircraft are also monitoring areas of eastern Belarus during their near-daily flights.
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