SpaceWar.com reports: “A Russian military aircraft was detected and tracked near U.S. airspace this past weekend in the fourth such incident in less than a week, according to NORAD.
On Sunday, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, revealed that it had intercepted two Russian IL-38 military aircrafts flying in international space near Alaska’s Air Defense Identification Zone, or ADIZ, in the fourth such reported incident in five days but was ‘not seen as a threat,’ NORAD said Sunday.
NORAD, the U.S-Canadian military alliance tasked with defending North American airspace, say the airspace in which the Russian jets were flying begins ‘where sovereign airspace ends and is a defined stretch of international airspace that requires the ready identification of all aircraft in the interest of national security.’
The string of recent interceptions began Sept. 11 when NORAD spotted a pair of Russian military aircraft operating in international air near ADIZ but also did not enter Canadian or United States sovereign airspace, according to a release on Wednesday.
However, Russian flights occur ‘regularly’ into the airspace known ADIZ with other recent interceptions in recent as July and May.
July’s incident arrived days after the Kremlin’s Defense Ministry claimed it had intercepted two U.S. B-52N bombers near the Russia’s borders just days prior.
On Thursday after the first release, Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, called for a greater military presence in the region…”
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