
An American Bombardier ARTEMIS II reconnaissance aircraft was seen looping over the Black Sea at a great distance from Crimea before heading towards Georgia.
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The Bombardier ARTEMIS II aircraft is used as a military reconnaissance aircraft.
An American reconnaissance plane was spotted making loops hundreds of kilometers away on the Crimean Peninsula. RIA Novosti reports this.
“The Bombardier ARTEMIS II aircraft had previously taken off from the Mihail Kogalniceanu airbase and headed east. At 10.50 Moscow time he was over the Black Sea, hundreds of kilometers from the Crimean Peninsula. After 11.00 Moscow time, the aircraft began to turn over the eastern part of the Black Sea at the level of the Turkish city of Trabzon and began to make loops,” the material notes.
Later, at 13.00 Moscow time, the plane headed towards Georgia, in the eastern part of the Black Sea. It is known to be a model converted from a business jet to a military reconnaissance vehicle.

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