NATIONAL, (WDNews) – U.S. and Canadian fighter jets intercepted Russian and Chinese nuclear-capable strategic bombers near the U.S. state of Alaska in the North Pacific and the Arctic on Thursday.
Russian Tu-95MS “Bear” strategic bombers and Chinese Xi’an H-6 strategic bombers were patrolling the Chukchi and Bering seas and the North Pacific, Russia’s defense ministry said.
Russia says that no foreign airspace was violated.
The U.S. military’s North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said that the U.S. and Canadian fighter jets had intercepted the Russian and People’s Republic of China (PRC) bombers in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ).
“The Russian and PRC aircraft remained in international airspace and did not enter American or Canadian sovereign airspace,” NORAD said.
NORAD says that they do not see this as a threat, although they will monitor activity near American air space very closely.
