9 minutes agoAmerican planes catch Russian bombers near Alaska
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)American and Canadian fighter jets caught two Russian bombers off the coast of Alaska on Thursday. The North American Airspace Defense Command also published images of the meeting, between two U.S. F-22 aircraft, two CF-18 Canadians and Russian aircraft Tu-95, which are capable of carrying nuclear weapons. The Russian plane remained all along [...]
The Russian aircraft stayed in international airspace all the time and never entered American or Canadian space.
The meeting comes at a complicated moment of US-Russia relations. On one hand, President Donald Trump has made it clear that he wants to improve relations with Moscow, but the two states have crashed on some important geopolitical issues, such as Russia's annexing Crime, intervention in American elections and trying to poison a Russian spy in Great Britain.
This is the several-way meeting between the two countries' fighter planes this year. Russian bombers have been flying several times for the entire year on the western coasts of the United States, from north to California, while they have often been seen near the shores of the European Union. These flights are viewed by the US as military exercises to understand Russia's potential in the event the crisis escalates into conflict.
