Source: Shephard
US fighter jets intercepted two long-range Russian ‘Bear’ bombers in international airspace off western Alaska, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said 12 May.
The long-range Tupelev Tu-95 bombers were ‘intercepted and visually identified’ 11 May morning by a pair of F-22 Raptors as the Russian aircraft flew just north of Alaska’s Aleutian islands, said Canadian Army Maj Andrew Hennessy, of NORAD public affairs.
‘At no time did the Russian bombers enter North American sovereign airspace,’ Hennessy said in a statement to AFP.
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