US fighter jets intercept 8 Russian warplanes near Alaska for 4th time in a week

.S. Air Force F-22 fighter jets were scrambled to intercept Russian bombers flying near Alaska two separate times late Tuesday night, marking the third and fourth intercepts in a single week.

“NORAD F-22 Raptors, supported by KC-135 Stratotankers and an E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System, successfully completed two intercepts of Russian bomber aircraft formations entering the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone last night,” the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said in a tweet on Wednesday morning.

“For the eighth time this year, Russian military aircraft have penetrated our Canadian or Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zones and each and every time NORAD forces were ready to meet this challenge,” said General Terrence J. O’Shaughnessy, the NORAD Commander.
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