The crew of a US military aircraft performed a daring maneuver near a Russian base in Syria on Tuesday night, Politico reported.

A KC-135 Stratotanker refueling aircraft painted a "sky penis" in the vicinity of Syria's Tartus, the Kremlin's naval base in the Mediterranean.

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It is not known whether the plane took off from Crete to refuel fighter jets, or the pilots simply had one task - to annoy Russian military personnel on the ground.

The Mediterranean Sea was the subject of a close encounter between three US Navy jets and Russian jets in February, in the days before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Cockpit caper!

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