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One day this month, while most of the world wasn’t looking, a Charleston based C-17 Globemaster flew over the former Soviet Union.
In the thaw that has taken place since the Cold War days, the US Air Force has now been allowed to fly over Russian air space, something unthinkable just a few years ago.
Air Force crews now only need proper documentation for those flights.
Earlier this year, Russian officials agreed to let USAF cargo planes carrying troops and military supplies to Manas Air Base in Kyrgyzstan and bases in Afghanistan to use the air space over their country.
On October 8, an Air Force crew from the 437th Air Wing out of Charleston, South Carolina, became the first to fly the much shorter “air bridge” over Russia.
The new agreement with Russia will allow 45,000 flights annually saving the Air Force approximately $133 million a year in fuel and related costs by not hop scotching around Europe and Asia.
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