U.S. and Canada Intercept Eight Russian Military Jets off North American Coastline
Earlier this week, U.S. and Canadian fighter jets deflected eight Russian military aircrafts nearing the North American coast.
Officials confirmed that on Wednesday night, two American F-22 fighter planes intercepted several Russian military aircrafts — two Mig-31 fighter jets, two Russian Bear long-range bombers and two refueling tankers — about 55 miles off the western Alaska coastline. A pair of Canadian CF-18 fighter jets halted two other Russian bomber planes roughly 40 nautical miles off Canada’s coastline early Thursday morning, around 1:30 a.m.
The jets were intercepted after arriving in the Air Defense Identification Zone, which stretches 200 miles off the …read more
Source: Newsweek
