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Russian warship armed with supersonic missiles seen 6 kilometers from the UK Air Force base

The largest Russian missile cruiser approached the British Air Force base.

One of the largest British military air bases in the Mediterranean was under the sights of the missiles of the Russian cruiser Marshal Ustinov. As it turned out, the Russian warship, armed with 16 Vulkan anti-ship missiles and 64 missiles of the S-300 air defense missile system, reached a distance of only 6 kilometers from the Royal Air Force base in the south of Cyprus.

According to the information available to the news agency Avia.pro, the missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov purposefully followed the area of ​​the British military airbase, which, among other things, houses the F-35 fighters. At the same time, the military vessel subsequently headed to the port of Limassol, although the purpose of its appearance here remains unknown for certain. Experts, in turn, believe that the Russian missile cruiser has become a kind of warning that the Mediterranean is not limited to the presence of only members of the North Atlantic Alliance here.

According to some reports, a Russian warship may take part in conducting exercises off the coast of Syria or it will ensure the visit of the Russian leader to Israel, however, so far no official comments have been submitted by the Russian Northern Fleet on this subject.

Analysts, in turn, do not exclude that the Russian air defense systems installed on board the cruiser may try to "probe" the British F-35 if the latter will fly into the air in the coming days.

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