Originally Posted by
alfaman
What makes you think they're flying without authorisation? Ove the Black Sea, as stated above, it's not in anyone's airspace.
My first thought as well. These come from sigonella in Italy and overfly a number of countries. All of which will have given permission.
I then realised he was talking generally. Like Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, numerous African countries. He was correct in that so chose not to comment on his post.