Several NATO aircraft are actively watching belarus on October 17, 2022. The Northrop Grumman E-8 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (REDEYE6) departed from Zweibrucken (Germany) at 6:56.
Two the RC-135W Rivet Joint electronic surveillance aircraft (JAKE11, RRR7217) departed from Royal Air Force Mildenhall (England) at 7:16.
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The Boeing E-3 Sentry airborne early warning and control aircraft (NATO01) departed from NATO Air Base Geilenkirchen (Germany).
According to Yuriy Ignat, the spokesman of the Air Force Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Kyiv and the northern regions have been attacked by the Shahed-136 kamikaze drones launched from the territory of belarus.
The HESA Shahed-136 loitering munition autonomous swarm pusher-prop aerial drones (also known in russian designation as the Geran-2) were being delivered to belarus in October. 32 such UAV had been brought by the 10th of October. 8 more were supposed to be delivered by the 14th of October.
“Since then, drones have been actively used from the Kursk region (russia) and the territory of belarus, they fly into the Kyiv region and along the Dnipro riverbed and in this way attack the capital and other regions in the north of Ukraine," Yuriy Ignat noted.
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