The American drone conducted reconnaissance at the Russian-Ukrainian border

The American strategic drone of the RQ-4 Global Hawk conducted two-hour air intelligence over the Donbass, according to the Twitter of the Civilmilair military aviation service.

The aircraft moved near the Russian border at an altitude of about 16 kilometers. According to the map published on Twitter, he flew over the zone of armed confrontation towards the Rostov region.

The radar of an American drone allows you to get a radar image of the area from a distance of up to 200 kilometers. The drone is capable of spending up to 30 hours at an altitude of 18 kilometers in the air. The characteristics allowed the apparatus to survey the entire territory controlled by pro -Russian separatists, as well as the border regions of Russia.

In July last year, the American drone of the same model was already seen in the sky over the Donbass. Then he ran at an altitude of 16.7 thousand meters for many hours in a row along the distinction line between the territories controlled by Kyiv and the pro -Russian militants.