Russia accused the US of unnecessarily fanning tensions. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress cockpit video. Two months earlier, it was the Russians intercepting US B-52 bombers flying over the Baltic Sea during a short-term deployment to Europe. Afterward, the US touted its ability to deter and defeat threats. The US scrambled F-22 stealth fighters and intercepted them. In May 2019, Russian Tu-95 long-range bombers entered the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) twice in two days. The US and Russia frequently intercept one another's bombers in Eastern Europe and over the Pacific. The US Air Force released its own statement on recent activities, explaining that 'strategic bomber missions enhance the readiness and training necessary to respond to any potential crisis or challenge across the globe.'#Видео Стратегические бомбардировщики B-52H ВВС США были замечены накануне у государственной границы.

Three B-52 bombers from the US Air Force's 5th Bomb Wing flew from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to Eastern Europe in an unusual flight. Russian fighters were twice scrambled to intercept US bombers approaching the Russian border around the Black and Baltic seas, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement, according to Russian media. Nearly 750 were built before production ended in the fall of 1962 170 of these were B-52Ds. The Russian Defense Ministry released a video shot from the cockpit of a Su-27 fighter as it raced after a US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress heavy, long-range bomber. After it became operational in 1955, the B-52 remained the main long-range heavy bomber of the US Air Force during the Cold War, and it continues to be an important part of the USAF bomber force today.

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