{"id":479627,"date":"2026-02-20T09:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/479627\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T09:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T09:21:08","slug":"us-jets-escort-russian-military-aircraft-out-of-alaskas-air-defence-zone-aviation-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/479627\/","title":{"rendered":"US jets escort Russian military aircraft out of Alaska\u2019s air defence zone | Aviation News"},"content":{"rendered":"

NORAD says aircraft did not enter sovereign airspace and were not considered a threat.<\/p>\n

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The United States has dispatched fighter jets after multiple Russian military aircraft were observed operating in international airspace near Alaska, according to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).<\/p>\n

Two Russian Tu-95s, two Su-35s and one A-50 were \u201cdetected and tracked\u201d operating in Alaska\u2019s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), NORAD said in a statement on Friday, adding that\u00a0it responded by sending two F-16s, two F-35s, one E-3 and four KC-135s.<\/p>\n

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It said the Russian aircraft did not enter US or Canadian sovereign airspace, and that they were escorted until they departed Alaska\u2019s ADIZ.<\/p>\n

While Russia\u2019s Ministry of Defence has not issued a statement, NORAD said that Russian aircraft are regularly observed in Alaska\u2019s ADIZ and that this type of activity is \u201cnot seen as a threat\u201d.<\/p>\n

Countries including the US, China, India and Japan have unilaterally declared ADIZs that require foreign military aircraft to identify themselves upon entering a specific zone of airspace.<\/p>\n

Unlike sovereign airspace, ADIZs are not recognised in international law or overseen by any international body.<\/p>\n

In July 2024<\/a>, the US and Canada intercepted two Chinese and two Russian bombers operating in Alaska\u2019s ADIZ.<\/p>\n

This was the first time that Russian and Chinese bombers are known to have flown together over the North Pacific, marking a further expansion of the countries\u2019 military cooperation and raising concerns among the US and its allies about regional stability. \"Interactive_Alaska_Air_Defence_July26_2024\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORAD says aircraft did not enter sovereign airspace and were not considered a threat. Listen to this article\u00a0|\u00a02…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,22611,3,1206,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-479627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-aviation","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-russia","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}