We usually don’t see it despite its size and don’t hear it despite the power of its eight turbojet engines. This Thursday, the beacon of two B-52H Sratofortress was activated to appear in full view on the FlightRadar24 platform, which tracks global civil aviation traffic.
A transparency that leaves no doubt about the deterrence message sent to Russia. These US Air Force planes would have taken off from the Morón Air Base in Spain. They arrived at this base only three days after the start of the war.
As part of NATO, they carried out a deterrence exercise at only 7,000 meters above sea level, flying over Bulgaria and then the Romanian border with Moldova, as the route of their route shows. The last such training mission dates back to March 2022, a few weeks after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
A routine operation
Before that, the two bombers passed over Denmark, then headed east over the Baltic Sea and headed southeast over Poland 280 km from Russia’s Kaliningrad Oblast. However, this route has not been made public but confirmed by the NATO air command, according to the site. Military Air.
This giant of the air is an intelligence bomber capable of launching nuclear attacks. It can fly at an altitude of 15,000 meters and reach a speed close to Mach1. Both aircraft have the capacity to carry up to 40 long-range cruise missiles with a total power of 6 megatons. If this device was originally designed to carry nuclear bombs, it is now armed with 32 tons of conventional bombs and missiles.
Source: BFM TV
