Perhaps of interest:
https://breakingdefense.com/2022/02/a-p ... e-us-army/
As the world waits on Russia’s next move in its slow-rolling invasion of Ukraine, US military aircraft continue flights over Eastern Europe, searching for changes in Russia’s posture along Ukraine’s border that could give clues about its next moves.
Flying in the region among the US military’s submarine hunting planes and surveillance drones is a novel intelligence-gathering aircraft prototype known as ARTEMIS — a Bombardier Challenger 650 that’s been souped up with military-grade sensors for tracking ground troops, flown on behalf of the US Army by defense contractor Leidos.
ARTEMIS, which stands for Airborne Reconnaissance and Target Exploitation Multi-Mission System, has been conducting operations over Eastern Europe since the beginning of the month, logging 14 sorties between Feb. 1 until Feb. 21, according to Amelia Smith, a hobbyist plane-spotter who has been using flight data to track ISR missions over Europe.
...see
https://breakingdefense.com/2022/02/a-p ... e-us-army/
for more.
Flight data shows that ARTEMIS tends to make the same flight path every day, first taking off from Romania
and flying through Slovakia and Hungary,
where it can get a quick glimpse of Ukraine.
From there, it moves along Poland’s eastern and northern borders —
a route that allows ARTEMIS to project its sensors into Belarus, where Russia has staged troops,
as well as Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave.
https://breakingdefense.com/2022/02/a-p ... e-us-army/
...and pre-invasion:
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/4 ... nd-ukraine
Indeed, NATO surveillance aircraft overfly Ukrainian territory, at times
This Is The Armada Of Spy Planes Tracking Russia's Forces Surrounding Ukraine
Meet the fleet of intel-gathering planes that has been aloft over the Black Sea and Ukraine to keep tabs on Russian forces.
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/4 ... nd-ukraine
Today, at least 9 NATO and Swedish ISR aircraft flew sorties over Europe: USN P-8As (PL16x, PL17x); USAF RQ-4s (FORTE11, FORTE12), RC-135U (HOMER49); US Army ARTEMIS (BRIO68); RAF RC-135W (RRR7234, RRR7217); Swedish S102B (SVF622). 1/5
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