U.S. fighter jets intercept Russian warplanes off Alaskan coast

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U.S. combatant jets were scrambled Thursday to intercept aggregate Russian bombers, combatant jets and a spy level that were spotted flying disconnected the seashore of Alaska, U.S. authorities said.

Two Russian Tu-95s bombers, 2 Su-35s combatant planes and an A-50 spy level were detected successful the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone, the North American Aerospace Defense Command reported successful a statement.

NORAD said it launched 2 F-16s, 2 F-35s and 4 KC-135s to escort the Russian craft until they had departed the Alaskan ADIZ.

The Russian craft did not participate U.S. oregon Canadian airspace, said NORAD, which described Russia's enactment successful the Alaskan ADIZ arsenic a regular occurrence that was not considered a threat.

The Alaskan ADIZ is simply a agelong of planetary airspace that begins wherever U.S. and Canadian sovereign airspace ends. According to NORAD, it is "defined agelong of planetary airspace that requires the acceptable recognition of each craft successful the involvement of nationalist security."

In September 2025, the U.S. besides scrambled combatant jets to intercept Russian Tu-95s and Su-35s successful the Alaskan ADIZ. Last August, NORAD intercepted a Russian IL-20 COOT, a Cold War-era reconnaissance aircraft, 4 times successful 1 week.

In September 2024, a 15-second video posted by NORAD showed a Russian combatant pitchy flying conscionable feet distant from a NORAD craft successful the Alaskan ADIZ.

In July 2024, some Russian and Chinese bombers were intercepted by the U.S. aft entering the Alaskan ADIZ. At the time, a U.S. defence authoritative told CBS News this marked the archetypal clip that Russian and Chinese craft had ever jointly entered the Alaska ADIZ, and the archetypal clip Chinese H-6 bombers had encroached disconnected Alaska.

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