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 ...
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. NORAD detected, tracked, and intercepted two Russian military aircraft operating in the Alaska Air Defense...
In March, U.S. and Canadian jets intercepted Russian reconnaissance aircraft near Alaska spying on a U.S. submarine exercise known as ICEX. “We continue to see repeated Russian military aviation activity in the Arctic and we will defend the U.S. and Canada against these threats em...
WASHINGTON, May 22 (Xinhua) -- For a second time in two days, U.S. warplanes on Tuesday intercepted Russian military planes off the coast of Alaska, the U.S. military said on Wednesday. After being intercepted by two U.S. F-22s, two Russian Tu-95 bombers which entered the Alaskan A...
The U.S. military said it intercepted four Russian warplanes near Alaska on Monday. North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said it detected four Russian aircraft, including TU-95 BEAR-H bombers and SU-35 fighter aircraft, entering and operatin
Four American aircraft carriers and a P-8 Poseidon aircraft were ordered to monitor joint Russian and Chinese naval exercises near the Aleutian Islands. China designated the drills as “third joint maritime patrol in western and northern Pacific waters,” the July 26 press release from China Mil...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Two Russian bombers were intercepted by two U.S. F-22 fighter jets near Alaska on Tuesday, said the U.S. military on Wednesday. The Russian Tu-95 bombers, accompanied by two Russian Su-35 fighter jets, were intercepted west of mainland Alaska at around...
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says that Russian and Chinese bombers flying together for the first time in international airspace off the coast of Alaska is a new show of expanding military cooperation and it raises concerns.
In February, the U.S.detectedfour Russian warplanes flying in the Alaska ADIZ, as was another Russian military aircraft inMay 2023. And in February 2023, Russian warplaneswere intercepted theretwice in one week. And that same month, a Chinese spy balloonwas detectednear Alaska before eventually...
The aircraft flew in formation within 200 miles of the Alaskan mainland, putting the planes in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). An ADIZ is a large plot of airspace that a country believes is vital to its air defense, in which it monitors aerial traffic both entering an...