NORAD intercepts Russian, Chinese bombers off Alaskan coast, washingtonpost.com

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U.S. and Canadian fighter jets intercepted two Russian and two Chinese bombers flying in international airspace near Alaska on Wednesday, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said, days after U.S. Defense Department officials said that increased Russian and Chinese activity in the Arctic region was “very noticeable and concerning.”

NORAD “detected, tracked, and intercepted” the foreign military aircraft operating in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone, an area that begins where sovereign airspace ends and which requires the “ready identification of all aircraft in the interest of national security,” NORAD said in a news release Wednesday.

The planes — two Russian TU-95s and two Chinese H-6s — remained in international airspace and did not enter American or Canadian sovereign airspace, it added. Läs artikel

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