OREANDA-NEWS   An American strategic reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was spotted in the Black Sea. About this "Tape" became known from the data of the air travel tracking portal Flightradar.

According to his information, the RQ-4B Global Hawk with the call sign FORTE10 on Monday, December 12, took off from the NATO Naval air base Sigonella on the Italian island of Sicily and at about 11:00 Moscow time began circling near the coast of Crimea. It is known that the device was fixed about 100 kilometers in a straight line from the peninsula.

In addition, over the territory of Romania, not far from the Odessa region, there was a US Lockheed EP-3E Aries II radio intelligence aircraft with the call sign TD45 — the aircraft arrived from the Souda air base on the Greek island of Crete, which is one of the strongholds of the NATO Naval Forces in the Eastern Mediterranean.