Close Contact of the Second Level

... the Baltic. This quite ordinary episode for today’s “cold world” has been quite the focus in the domestic media. Let us try to get to the bottom of this matter, first taking a look at what happened. On the morning of April 7, 2015 an RC-135U on temporary deployment from its home base in Nebraska, took off from the Airbase at Mildenhall in England to fly “a routine route in international airspace” (quote from the US Department of Defense). The RC-135U Combat Sent is one ...