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 ...
Lori O'Donley is spokeswoman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command. She says the incidents all happened in international airspace. Russia periodically flies into the U.S. air defense identification zone that extends 200 miles off the coast. O'Donley says the last such string of incide...
The Alaska ADIZ is a buffer zone of thousands of square miles that isn’t sovereign airspace—Russian planes can legally fly there—but entering the zone means a plane could conceivably enter U.S. airspace in a relatively short amount of time. You'll Love This Inside the CIA Plan...
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...
On Thursday at 1:30 a.m, two Canadian CF-18 fighter jets intercepted two long-range bombers flying near the western coast of Alaska. In both incidents while the Russian planes did enter the Air Defense Identification Zone, they were not in the sovereign airspace of the United States or Ca...
Eight Russian military planes and four navy vessels, including two submarines, have come close to Alaska in the past week as Russia and Chinaconducted joint military drills. None of the planes breached U.S. airspace and a Pentagon spokesperson said Tuesday there ...
U.S. Air Force F-22 fighter jets intercepted two sets of Russian bombers off the coast of Alaska on Wednesday morning, one of them coming 8 miles from entering U.S. territorial airspace that extends 12 miles from the coastline. Though the Russian bombers remained in international airspace,...
fighter jets intercepted two Russian TU-95 bombers in international airspace off Alaska’s coast, and “escorted them” for 12 minutes, according to the Pentagon. Article content And Russian aircraft have done similar missions, and also buzzed U.S. Navy ships in the Pacific. In most of the...
The Russian navy conducted major war games near Alaska involving dozens of ships and aircraft, the military said Friday, the biggest such drills in the area since Soviet times. Russia scrambled its fighter jets to intercept and escort the U.S. and NATO bombers and reconnaiss...
On April 9, the U.S. Air Force intercepted two Russian Il-38 May ASW aircraft in the Bering Sea north of the Aleutians. The Russian planes were in the Alaska ADIZ but didn’t enter sovereign U.S. or Canadian airspace. Two random Il-38Ns ...