Their deployment coincided with eight Russian aircraft and four navy vessels,including two submarines, traveling close to Alaska while Russia and China conducted joint military drills. None of those planes entered U.S. air space. On Sept. 30,NORAD posted a dramatic videoof a Russian fighter jet ...
There's something unusual happening in two places. One is the airspace over Alaska where Russian jets were intercepted and the other involves Missouri and two 'Doomsday Planes' that were recently spotted over it. Let's start with what happened over Alaska recently. AsNewsweekreported, Russian ai...
The U.S. military has moved about 130 soldiers along with mobile rocket launchers to a desolate island in Alaska amid a recent increase in Russian military planes and vessels approaching the state.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Russian and Chinese bombers flew together for the first time in international airspace off the coast of Alaska, in a new show of expanding military cooperation that U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday raises concerns. The flights Wednesday were not ...
The US Air Force has reported intercepting two Russian scout planes that entered its “defense identification zone” off Alaska. Moscow says it was a training flight and the planes came nowhere near US airspace. US F-22 Raptor fighters, supported by an aerial refueling KC-135 Stratotanker aircr...
WASHINGTON (AP) — When a Russian fighter jet collided with a large U.S. surveillance drone over the Black Sea, it was a rare but serious incident that triggered a U.S. diplomatic protest and raised concerns about the possibility Russia could recover sen
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...
Russian and Chinese military activity has also ramped up near Alaska. Earlier this month, the U.S. military moved about 130 soldiers along with mobile rocket launchers to a desolate island in the Aleutian chain of western Alaska amid a recent increase in Russian military planes and vessels appr...
In one, a commercial airliner traveling to Russia from Alaska is hijacked. In the other, an airliner from Russia is captured while heading into U.S. airspace. Communications with the plane ceases. Fighter aircraft from both countries are then scrambled to intercept and have to work out ...
When a Russian fighter jet collided with a large U.S. surveillance drone over the Black Sea, it was a rare but serious clash that triggered a U.S. diplomatic protest and raised concerns about the possibility Russia could recover sensitive technology.