{"id":3508,"date":"2018-05-12T23:13:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T23:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2018-05-12T23:13:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T23:13:44","slug":"usaf-f-22-intercepted-two-russian-tu-95h-bear-bombers-off-western-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/05\/12\/usaf-f-22-intercepted-two-russian-tu-95h-bear-bombers-off-western-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"USAF F-22 INTERCEPTED TWO RUSSIAN TU-95H BEAR BOMBERS OFF WESTERN ALASKA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/F22-TU95.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3509\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/F22-TU95-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/F22-TU95.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/F22-TU95-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/F22-TU95-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/F22-TU95-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/F22-TU95-260x195.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/05\/F22-TU95-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Shephard<\/p>\n<p>US fighter jets intercepted two long-range Russian &#8216;Bear&#8217; bombers in international airspace off western Alaska, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said 12 May.<\/p>\n<p>The long-range Tupelev Tu-95 bombers were &#8216;intercepted and visually identified&#8217; 11 May morning by a pair of F-22 Raptors as the Russian aircraft flew just north of Alaska&#8217;s Aleutian islands, said Canadian Army Maj Andrew Hennessy, of NORAD public affairs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;At no time did the Russian bombers enter North American sovereign airspace,&#8217; Hennessy said in a statement to AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.shephardmedia.com\/news\/defence-notes\/us-jets-intercept-russian-bombers-alaskan-coast\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Shephard US fighter jets intercepted two long-range Russian &#8216;Bear&#8217; bombers in international airspace off western Alaska, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said 12 May. The long-range Tupelev Tu-95 bombers were &#8216;intercepted and visually identified&#8217; 11 May morning by a pair of F-22 Raptors as the Russian aircraft flew just north of Alaska&#8217;s Aleutian&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/05\/12\/usaf-f-22-intercepted-two-russian-tu-95h-bear-bombers-off-western-alaska\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USAF F-22 INTERCEPTED TWO RUSSIAN TU-95H BEAR BOMBERS OFF WESTERN ALASKA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[955,1861],"class_list":["post-3508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-f-22","tag-tu-95","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3510,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions\/3510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}