Four Russian warplanes on Tuesday flew just outside of United States airspace near Alaska, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said, marking the latest incident involving Russian aircraft off the coast of the U.S. state.The military operation was routine, according to the agency, which ...
This week, a series of incidents lead to Canadian and U.S jets intercepting a total of 8 Russian aircraft near Alaska. In a press release, issued by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), it was revealed that on Wednesday at 7 p.m. (PST), several Russian war planes were...
Let's start with what happened over Alaska recently. AsNewsweekreported, Russian aircraft were intercepted by American fighters after NORAD detected them coming uncomfortably close to our airspace. That event was followed shortly thereafter by two United States 'Doomsday planes' spotted over Missouri c...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military says Russian military aircraft have approached the coast of Alaska four times this week, and U.S. fighter jets intercepted them twice. The military says the latest incident happened late Thursday, and that F-22 Raptor aircraft and Canadian CF-18 Hornet ...
A rise in Russian military aircraft venturing near North America is straining Air Force crews who must meet them in the air. ✈ You love badass planes. So do we. Let’s nerd out over them together. U.S. Air Force units stationed in Alaska, near America’s frozen border with...
In May 1988, a Bering Air aircraft lifted the 41-year-old “Ice Curtain” between Alaska and the Soviet Union, now known as Russia after the collapse in the early 90’s. The historic flight and opening of the airways between western Alaska and the former Soviet Far East represented the ...
The planes operated in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone, a zone beyond U.S. sovereign airspace, but within which the U.S. expects aircraft to identify themselves, NORAD said. The Russian Embassy in the U.S. did not immediately respond to an email ...
“Two Alaskan-based NORAD F-22 fighters intercepted and visually identified two Tu-95 ‘Bear’ long-range bomber aircraft flying in the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone, south of the Aleutian Islands,” he told the Free Beacon. More… Share this: Email This...
The aircraft completed the planned flight along the northern coast of the Aleutian Islands and the western coast of Alaska and Canada, the ministry added. The Tu-142 aircraft were supported by a pair of high-altitude fighter-interceptors MiG-31BM, the ministry's Zvezda broadcasting service said...
The Russian warplanes did not enter U.S. or Canadian sovereign airspace, the statement added. In May, the Russian Defense Ministry said that Russia's Tu-95 strategic bombers and Tu-142 anti-submarine aircraft jets were escorted by two U.S. F-22 fighters when they flew over the neutral ...