The announcement was made known just yesterday Saturday directly from the US armed forces: American B-52 Stratofortress bombers have arrived in the Middle East. This was succinctly stated in the announcement which was issued exactly the day after the announcement by the Pentagon that it will deploy more military means for the “defense of Israel” and as a warning to Iran.
Long range bomber
Until now when these awesome eight-engine long-range subsonic strategic bomber, 48.5m long, 56.4m wingspan, 12.4m high, built to carry Cold Age nuclear weapons of war in deterrence missions, they entered the national airspace, or even the Athens FIR, the Americans always asked to accompany Greek F-16 fighters. They did the same when flying on a mission or an exercise over Turkey, requesting an escort of Turkish fighters.
They did not enter the Athens FIR
But this time they came to the Middle East (unknown, apparently for security reasons, their landing place) and did not ask Greece to accompany them with F-16s. What had happened? As “To Vima” is informed, they did not even enter the FIR of Athens, perhaps in order not to cause any problems with our country and passed south of Crete. They started from the USAF’s Minot base (in North Dakota) and arrived in the area of responsibility of CENTCOM”, the joint command of the US armed forces responsible for the Middle East, according to a laconic post on social networking isotopes. Beyond that, nothing.
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