Updated 29 December

Almost that time of the year to look back on the statistics on intelligence-gathering flights by NATO member states, notably the U.S.  as well as Sweden.

A full brief will be provided when all of the December figures are available, so this is a teaser to whet your appetite, I will update it as the information becomes available.

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Continuing with the series of intelligence-gathering and support aircraft missions around the periphery of Russian borders, mostly in the Baltic and Black Seas regions, but also the Barents as well. Below is a comparison between flights statistics collected for February and March 2021.


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This is the 2nd part of a dedicated overview on air missions carried in proximity to Russian borders, (NATO members and Sweden), principally intelligence-gathering missions, supported by air tankers in the area.

Flights details were obtained from various social media aircraft tracking accounts. The variety of intelligence gathering flights, ( ( Read more... )

This is part of a series on air missions carried in proximity to Russian borders, (NATO members and Sweden), principally intelligence-gathering missions, supported by air tankers.  Flights tracked were mostly either over the waters of the Baltic,  Black and more rarely, Barents Seas.

The latest briefing follows on an article written back in May ( Read more... )

End of year update for the statistics and data presented by the Russian Ministry of Defence and Red Star.


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An update to the previous post, here's the infographic for flights in May 2020.


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