Russian military planes were seen in the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (Adiz) on Tuesday and Wednesday, activity that North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad) said “occurs regularly and is not seen as a threat.”
In both cases, Norad said that the Russian planes were detected and followed. The Russian plane remained in international airspace and did not go to the American or Canadian sovereign airspace.
Norad said: “An Adiz starts where the sovereign airspace ends and a defined piece of international airspace is that requires the easy identification of all aircraft in the interest of national security.”
The activity comes as president Donald Trump Works on starting negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the Russian war in Ukraine.
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Norad Fighter Pilot intercepts Russian SU-35 aircraft on September 23, 2024. (Photo supplied by Norad)
The latest detections of Russian planes that fly into the Adiz will come less than a month after Norad, which us and Canadian troops under a joint ordersaid that the multiple Russian military aircraft activity in the North Pole area kept an eye on.
While the Russian planes In that case, it also remained in international airspace and Norad was not seen as a threat, Norad said that it was launching a combat air patrouille from its Canadian Norad region to the northern region of Canada, and an air patrol of the Alaska Norad region off the coast of The Alaska/Yukon -border coast, to follow the activity further.
Norad said it has followed the activity by Russian military aircraft in the Adiz, which occurs regularly and is not seen as a threat. (Norad)
Norad appealed in September a tense moment between Russian and Norad troops Depicted on video, In which a Russian SU-35 hit directly for a Norad F-16, apparently surprised, over the Adiz.
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Norad said at the time that the “unprofessional air maneuver focused on our Norad F-16” took place while “on 23 September it carried out a routine professional interception of a Russian TU-95 plane”.
Gene. Gregory Guillot, commander of the North American Defense Command and the American Northern Command, condemned the dangerous behavior in a statement at the time.
“Norad aircraft flew a safe and disciplined interception of Russian military aircraft in the Alaska Adiz. The behavior of one Russian SU-35 was unsafe, unprofessional and endangered what you would see in a professional air force,” said Guillot, “” said Guillot.
Caitlin McFall from Fox News Digital has contributed to this report.
