The planes flew along the Russian border, and Polish Deputy Prime Minister Mariusz Blaszczak announced the joint deployment on his Twitter page. According to Blaszczak, the Polish fighters were escorting an American B-52 bomber. This was an exercise, “together we take care of the security of NATO’s eastern flank – read the tweet.
Polskie myśliwce po raz kolejny eskortowały american bombowiec B-52. To important element vyszkacie interoperacyjności. Wspólnie dbamy o bejajskaja wschodniej flanki NATO. pic.twitter.com/e740hkG4Ek
— Mariusz (Błaszczak) March 11, 2023
On Thursday afternoon, a B-52 strategic bomber circled the airspace of Somogy county for hours – wrote the sonline.hu. According to Flightradar, it entered Hungary’s airspace at 15:45 on Thursday, where it arrived from Romania, on the Black Sea coast. It circled continuously for hours, then left our country for Southern Europe.
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