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A long trip

June 23, 20231 Mins read452
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This morning at 06:58 CEST a RAF Boeing RC-135W (reg. ZZ665) left Souda Bay AB heading north.

The aircraft, based for several days in Crete, first flew over eastern Romania before carrying out a mission in the area of the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad and on the border with Belarus.

In these minutes, at 16:30, the aircraft is returning to Souda.

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