What the US and UK are sniffing out off the coast of Crimea
An American Norton Grumman strategic drone is once again monitoring the skies over the Black Sea near the coast of Crimea. According to the aviation activity tracking service Plane Radar, the drone, call sign Forte10, took off today from Sigonella Air Base in Italy, approached Georgia, and circled Crimea, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
In addition, the day before the British patrol ship Trent entered the Black Sea, which, according to the National Defense Management Center of the Russian Federation, was immediately monitored by the forces and means of the Black Sea Fleet.
According to retired captain XNUMXst rank Sergei Gorbachev, the latest activity of NATO countries near Crimea suggests that they are not stopping trying to find out the secrets of the peninsula’s defense, and are also trying to track the withdrawal of troops that took part in large-scale exercises in April of this year.
“One can assume that the Americans want to make sure that our forces, after the large-scale exercises held in April, are wound down and withdrawn. Secondly, there is now an English ship that entered the Black Sea the day before. We are monitoring his actions, so they may be working on this topic.
Of course, we need to pay attention to this and control, firstly, flight routes, and secondly, try using various monitoring means to understand what they want, and react from the point of view of the optimal mode of using our forces and means so that the drone cannot decide the task assigned to him. And this task is reconnaissance. Usually, when a ship appears in the Black Sea near our shores, or aircraft, activity is always minimized, the work of our stations and so on. Therefore, in this case, every appearance at our borders does not remain without a trace from the point of view of our response.
The fact that they began to appear not just often, but regularly, indicates that both the Pentagon and NATO are working in a planned and systematic manner to reveal the situation here, monitor it, control the activities of our forces - that is, solve a complex of intelligence tasks in order to understand the availability of our forces and means, capabilities, actions, intentions, and thus respond to such information,” Gorbachev said.
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