The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) tracked and intercepted a combination of Chinese and Russian aircraft operating near Alaska on Wednesday.
U.S. and Canadian aircraft intercepted the two Russian TU-95 and two Chinese H‑6 military aircraft operating in international airspace, NORAD said in a statement. The foreign aircraft did not enter U.S. or Canadian sovereign airspace.
View from a Russian Air Force Tu-95 in Alaska’s air defense identification zone yesterday, after an intercept by US and Canadian forces.Flying in formation next to the Russian Bear:2x USAF F‑16 Falcons1x USAF F‑352x RCAF CF-18 Hornets pic.twitter.com/5O03GQmd9D
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NORAD also noted that it did not view the aircraft “as a threat,” though they will continue to monitor foreign activity near North America. It’s not uncommon for Russian aircraft to fly into Alaska‘s Air Defense Identification Zone (AZID), which is where sovereign airspace ends and is a defined stretch of international airspace that requires aircraft to readily identify itself in the interest of national security.
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