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A quiet night is a good night on a surveillance plane over Eastern Europe. That’s because a busy night means terror is coming to someone on the ground below.

I’ve been speaking with the crew of an aircraft patrolling the skies over the eastern edges of Poland. They can’t tell me exactly where they’ve been, but it is safe to say they’ve been closer to the war in Ukraine than most pilots and crew will ever want to get. And they’ve been doing it to monitor Russian attacks and keep the rest of Europe safe.

The crew of this spy plane are trained to watch a bank of screens along the cabin of their E-7A Wedgeta

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