“On July 3, 2020, three anti-submarine aircraft Tu-142 of the Northern Fleet completed a planned flight over the neutral waters of the Barents, Norwegian seas and the northeast Atlantic,” the press service said.
It is noted that the flight duration exceeded 12 hours. The length of the route was 7 thousand km.
At the same time, in some sections of the route, aircraft were accompanied by Norwegian F-16 fighters and F-35 aircraft from the Keflavik air base in Iceland.
On July 1, Su-27 fighters of the Black Sea Fleet naval aviation took to the air to intercept a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance aircraft.