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U.S. B-52 Bomber Flies with Navy Fighter Jets Over the Caribbean

A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress2. Credit: U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Katie Mullikin

The U.S. intimidation campaign against Venezuela continues. A B-52 bomber from Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota., flew over the Caribbean Sea and near Venezuela on Nov. 24, according to open-source flight tracking data—the second time in five days such a mission has unfolded, Air & Space Forces Magazine reported on Nov. 24. Both were tracked taking off from Minot and then flying south.

Newsweek published a screen capture from Flightradar24, showing a single B-52 off the coast of Venezuela escorted by a pair of F-18 fighter jets from the USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier, with three more stretched out over distance of nearly 400 miles to the west. The fact that five F-18’s had their transponders on, making them visible on flight-tracking websites, shows that someone wanted them to be seen.

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