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