The United States and Canada scrambled multiple aircraft to intercept and track five Russian military planes flying near Alaska on Thursday.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said it detected two Russian Tu-95s, two Su-35s and one A-50 early warning spy aircraft operating in the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ).
NORAD, a joint U.S.-Canadian command, said it launched two F-16s, two F-35s, one E-3, and four KC-135 aircraft to “intercept, positively identify, and escort the aircraft until they departed the Alaskan ADIZ.”
“The Russian military aircraft remained in international airspace and did not enter American or Canadian sovereign airspace,” NORAD said. “This Russian activity in the Alaskan ADIZ occurs regularly and is not seen as a threat.”
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