An aircraft dubbed the American 'nuke sniffer' has been flying over Scotland amid the intensifying war in Ukraine. The 'Constant Phoenix' is designed to 'sniff' nuclear radioactivity and has previously been used to trace such activity from Russian vessels.
The WC-135W aircraft recently arrived in the UK and had been operating out of RAF Mildenhall, in Suffolk.The plane has been conducting missions over central and eastern Europe, as well as the Mediterranean Sea.Its mission is to collect samples from the atmosphere for the purpose of detecting and identifying nuclear explosions.
As the conflict in Ukraine intensifies due to the Russian invasion of the country, the 'nuke sniffer' flew over Scotland on Tuesday, heading towards Norway, as reported by the UK Defence Journal.
A map of the aircraft's flightpath saw the plane soar up the east coast of England, past Newcastle and into Scotland's airspace.It continued up the east coast, flying near Edinburgh and over Dundee and Aberdeen, before heading towards Norway.UK Defence Journal writer George Allison took to Twitter to raise the alarm.He said: "BREAKING NEWS.
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