NORAD Confirms Russian Strategic Bombers Intercepted Off Alaskan Coast
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Sat, 05/12/2018
Two Russian strategic bombers were intercepted by US military aircraft in international airspace within 200 miles of Alaska’s coast on Friday morning. NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) confirmed the incident in a statement to CNN, which involved US F-22 stealth fighters escorting the large Russian planes in international airspace away from the US coastline for 40 minutes, according to Reuters.
NORAD and USNORTHCOM spokesman Canadian Army Maj. Andrew Hennessy confirmed in a statement a day after the encounter that, “At approximately 10 a.m. ET, two Alaskan-based NORAD F-22 fighters intercepted and visually identified two Russian TU-95 ‘Bear’ long-range bomber aircraft flying in the Air Defense Identification Zone around the western coast of Alaska, north of the Aleutian Islands.”
The referenced Air Defense Identification Zone is said to extend approximately 200 miles off Alaska’s western coast, and it appears the Russian aircraft never entered US airspace, according to NORAD’s statement. The official statement further reads the Russian bombers were “intercepted and monitored by the F-22s until the bombers left the ADIZ along the Aleutian Island chain heading west.
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