U.S. F-16 fighter jets intercepted Russian bomber and fighter aircraft in international airspace off Alaska’s coast Monday in an incident defense officials said was routine and unrelated to a series of objects shot down over North America in recent days.
A Russian Tu-95 bomber, top, is intercepted by a U.S. F-22 Raptor fighter off the coast of Alaska on June 16, 2020.
North American Aerospace Defense Command scrambled two F-16s to intercept the four Russian aircraft — two TU-95 BEAR-H bombers and two SU-35 fighters — after they entered the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone, or ADIZ, according to a NORAD statement issued Tuesday. Officials described the intercept as routine and professional.
The Russian aircraft never came close to entering U.S. airspace, which extends 12 nautical miles from American shores. However, U.S. officials expect aircraft entering the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone — a stretch of mostly international airspace some 200 nautical miles off the Alaskan coast — to identify themselves in the interest of national security.
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