Offutt crew resumes aerial photography flights over Russia

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 Offutt crew resumes aerial photography flights over Russia

    By Steve Liewer / World-Herald staff writer Feb 23, 2019


An Air Force jet piloted by an Offutt-based crew is flying the first aerial photography flight over Russia in more than a year under the Open Skies Treaty, Pentagon officials confirmed, marking a return to some limited military cooperation between the two nations.

The OC-135B flew from Offutt Air Force Base to Japan late last week. On the way there, they picked up a team of monitors from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to staff the expensive “sensors,” or cameras, mounted in the cabin of the four-engine jet. It flew on to Russia on Monday.

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