NORAD detects Russian aircraft operating in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone

July 6, 2023 in News by RBN Staff

 

via email alert from “NORAD Public Affairs” <n-ncpa.omb@mail.mil>

 

In this file photo taken on Friday, May 4, 2018, Russian Tu-95 strategic bombers fly past the Russian flag on the Kremlin complex during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

 

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) detected and tracked four Russian military aircraft operating in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) on July 3, 2023.

 

The Russian aircraft remained in international airspace and did not enter American or Canadian sovereign airspace. This Russian activity in the Alaska ADIZ occurs regularly and is not seen as a threat.

 

An ADIZ 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.

 

NORAD employs a layered defense network of satellites, ground-based and airborne radars and fighter aircraft to track aircraft and inform appropriate actions. NORAD remains ready to employ a number of response options in defense of North America.