The US has transferred strategic bombers to Europe 6
The US Air Force sent six of its strategic bombers B-52H Stratofortress to the Fairford airbase of the British Royal Air Force in Gloucestershire. About this, without specifying the sources of information reports the local edition of Gloucestershire Live, writes RBC.
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Arriving there this week from six to eight B-52H Stratofortress it announced another 14 March. On its website, the publication publishes photographs of eyewitnesses, on which American bombers are captured at the base in Gloucestershire.
US military planes, according to Gloucestershire Live, flew to Europe from the Barksdale base in Louisiana. Now, the newspaper notes, they have become part of the deployment of a new task force of the US Air Force in England.
The B-52H Stratofortress began to arrive at the air base in Britain on Thursday, March 14. Then one bomber flew to Gloucestershire, another arrived the next day, on Friday. On Saturday, there were four more such aircraft in England. Thus, the total number of B-52H royal air forces currently stationed at the base is six, Gloucestershire Live sums up.
The B-52H Stratofortress, according to him, "was a stronghold of the United States Armed Forces for 40 years and is expected to remain in service until the 2040 year."
Earlier, on March 16, such an American bomber was spotted near the Baltic during maneuvers near Russian borders. This was evidenced by the data of the monitoring service PlaneRadar. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the B-52H Stratofortress did not come closer to the borders of the country than 150 km, and when the Russian anti-aircraft defenses began to accompany him, he turned around.
B-52H Stratofortress is in service with the US Air Force 1955 year. At subsonic speeds at altitudes up to 15 km, it is able to carry various types of weapons, including nuclear ones.
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