 It was reported on Twitter that the aircraft stayed in position for almost two hours, just east of Cyprus. One pundit claimed: "They were on a refuelling mission that usually is just a long oval, repeated over and over.... so they added the 'balls.' No extra taxpayer money spent." Russia has close relations with Syria and under a bilateral agreement in 2017, Damascus agreed to lease the port of Tartus to the Kremlin. Tartus is Russia's only base in the Mediterranean, and is mainly used to deliver supplies to aid with its mission in Syria with the regime and to repair its warships. A Russian official also suggested in December that the port could be used to station Russia's new Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles. MORE ON){kind=link}
There has not been confirmation on whether the jet was on a mission to refuel fighter planes or to simply mock the Russians, after the extremely rude flight path drawing was revealed
Russia has been humiliated by the American military as one of its aircraft crew drew a penis in the sky near Moscow’s base in Syria, on Tuesday night.
The KC-135 Stratotanker aerial refueling plane drew a “sky penis” right next to Syria’s Tartus – the Kremlin’s naval facility in the Mediterranean, as spotted on a Flightradar map.
There has not been confirmation on whether the jet was on a mission to refuel fighter planes, or to simply mock the Russians.
The Mediterranean was the subject of a close encounter between three US Navy planes and Russian aircraft back in February, in the days before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.