According to Rogulev, these are training flights, the intensity of which has now increased.
“What has to do with such inland areas, which earlier American strategic bombers used extremely rarely — these are the Baltic and the Black Sea.
Now they fly there too.
This is, of course, an element of pressure on Russia - it certainly is present.
These are demonstration flights of strategic planes armed with serious strategic weapons, ”the political scientist believes.
In turn, Viktor Litovkin notes that the United States "scares" Russia, and also wants to "force it to get involved in the arms race."
According to the military expert, the United States also "experienced a huge shame" while fleeing Afghanistan.
“Where they were for 20 years, they occupied this country.
And then, excuse me, they pulled up their pants and ran, throwing their weapons, their equipment, and so on.
The whole world saw what the vaunted American military power was worth, ”Litovkin recalls.
He added that Russia is aware of the danger posed by the US military.
“We are not afraid of them ... We behave calmly, we know that at the right moment we will neutralize them, as always we neutralized any aggressor who taught us how to live,” the expert concluded.
Earlier, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the crews of American bombers are practicing reaching the line of using cruise missiles.
He specified that in 2020 alone, the strategic aviation of the United States Air Force performed 22 flights over the Sea of Okhotsk, while in 2019 there were only three.