@pauldokas I'm not sure if you regularly follow this stuff, but this is what we've been doing for the last year in the black sea; flying surveillance drones on a similar pattern. We took a few days off after they took one down, but it appears that we're back.

Did you see NOBLE41 last night? We flew a B-52 low and close to St. Petersburg. My guess is as a show of strength in response to the drone thing.