The multi-sea linkage of American bombers was less than 200 kilometers away from the Russian capital.

CCTV News:Less than 200 kilometers from St. Petersburg, it appears in several airspace around Russia — — These exciting expressions are all used to describe a collective action of the US B-52. What kind of signal did this rare action on the 18th send?

In the huge roar of eight aero-engines, the B-52 strategic bomber landed slowly at Fairford Air Force Base in England. On 14th of this month, the US Air Force issued a statement saying that the B-52 bomber stationed in barksdale, Louisiana, USA had been temporarily deployed to Britain. The US military official did not disclose specific data, but the US military media quoted sources as saying that a total of six B-52s flew from the United States to the United Kingdom.

Since 2014, the US military has dispatched strategic bombers to the European Command every year, but it has never reached the scale of this deployment — — In fact, this is the largest number of American bombers sent to Europe since the Iraq war in 2003.

What kind of tasks do so many B-52s have to perform in Europe?

Late at night on the 18th Beijing time, accounts on social media that have been paying attention to the trends of US military aircraft all the year round posted messages saying: On that day, several B-52s appeared around Russia — — Among them, a bomber numbered 60-0061 appeared over Estonia, and the nearest distance was less than 200 kilometers from St. Petersburg, Russia; Another bomber, numbered 61-0015, appeared over Romania and accepted aerial refueling; In addition, at least one plane appeared over the Barents Sea.

This is not the whole story — — The network account found that two B-52s took off from Guam on the same day and flew to the airspace east of Russian Kamchatka Peninsula in journey to the south — — In other words, the areas where the US B-52 appeared that day included the Barents Sea, the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea and the Pacific Ocean.

The US Strategic Command later confirmed that the B-52 bomber conducted training flights within the Indo-Pacific Command and the European Command on the same day.

With the suspension of the implementation of the China-Treaty Treaty by the United States and Russia, the relationship between the two countries has recently worsened — — Pentagon officials confirmed last week that the United States will take two steps to restore its missile capability: the first step is to test-fire a land-based cruise missile with a range of about 1000 kilometers in August; The second step is to test-fire a land-based ballistic missile with a range of about 3,000-4,000 kilometers in November. Some American media pointed out that the land-based cruise missile tested in August is probably the land-based Tomahawk missile deployed in Western Europe in the 1980s.

Now when it comes to Tomahawk, many people will think of cruise missiles launched from surface ships or submarines — — But in fact, before the signing of the China-Treaty, Tomahawk could also be launched from land. This piece of information shot in 1982 shows that the land-based tomahawk can fly on the ground, using the terrain as a cover. Each launch unit consists of four mobile launch vehicles, each carrying four missiles; All eight wheels of the launch vehicle can provide driving force, which makes this type of missile have excellent field mobility.