As specified in the Ministry of Defense, fighter escort was provided by the crews of Su-35S aircraft of the Air Force and Air Defense Association of the Eastern Military District
MOSCOW, October 22. /tass/. Two Tu-95MS missile carriers accompanied by Su-35S fighters performed a scheduled flight over the Chukchi, Bering and Okhotsk Seas. This was reported to journalists on Friday in the Russian Defense Ministry.
"Two Tu-95MS long-range strategic missile carriers performed a planned flight in the airspace over the neutral waters of the waters of the Chukchi, Bering and Okhotsk Seas," the military department noted.
As specified in the Ministry of Defense, fighter escort was provided by the crews of Su-35S aircraft of the Air Force and Air Defense Association of the Eastern Military District. The flight lasted more than 9 hours.
The military department stressed that long-range aviation crews regularly fly over the neutral waters of the Arctic, the North Atlantic, the Black and Baltic Seas, as well as the Pacific Ocean. "All flights of aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces are carried out in strict accordance with international rules for the use of airspace," the Defense Ministry stressed.
