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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Meet the NATO Crews Watching the Skies For Russia's Next Move

E-3A Sentry AWACSRussia may be flexing its muscles in a Soviet-like show of force, but the rest of the world is not taking Vladimir Putin's imperialist spasms lightly. PM was invited on an official surveillance flight high above Europe.

If I close my eyes and relax into the drone of the engines and the heavy rush of air, I might almost forget that I'm in a military airplane.

The NATO E-3A is 153 feet long and built on the same frame as a Boeing 707 airliner, so in contrast to the fighter jets looping through the sky not far away, it is not designed to make any sudden moves. The E-3A is a whale floating along at 35,000 feet, and I am buckled into its belly.

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