Open Skies Treaty – The Aviationist

Analysing U.S. Departure From the Open Skies Treaty.

May 24, 2020 David Cenciotti 1

Russian and Western Researchers Share Perspectives on U.S. Departure From the Treaty on Open Skies. On May 21, 2020, President of the United States Donald Trump confirmed the U.S. decision to exit the Open Skies […]

Ukrainian Armed Forces An-30B Carries Out Open Skies Treaty Observation Flights Over Southern Italy

September 27, 2019 David Cenciotti 0

The somewhat rare aircraft involved in observation flights earlier this week. A Ukrainian Armed Forces An-30B carried out observation flights over several southern Italy locations under the “Open Skies” treaty. As explained by Open Skies […]

Russian Air Force About To Conduct An Open Skies Treaty Observation Mission Over Canada’s Arctic.

July 25, 2019 Steffan Watkins 0

Analog vs Digital: Canada under observation by Russian Open Skies Treaty mission, while multinational mission is over Russia. According to Canadian Department of National Defence officials, Russian officials, and open sources, from Jul. 22 to […]

Turkey has denied a Russian Open Skies observation flight over its territory because it was near the Syrian border

February 10, 2016 Dario Leone 13

Another episode that further escalates the crisis between Turkey and Russia. Turkey has barred a Russian Antonov An-30B spyplane, that was supposed to operate out of Eskisehir airfield, Turkey, on Feb. 1 to 5, from performing […]

Russian Tu-214R intelligence gathering plane exposed! First photo of the new spyplane during test flight lands on the Web.

May 24, 2012 David Cenciotti 0

Evgeny Volkov is the name of the photographer who took the first picture of a flying Russian Tu-214R known to date. The image Evgeny has uploaded to the Russianplanes.net portal, shows the Tu-214R carring registration […]