PETERSON SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo– The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) detected and tracked one IL-20 COOT operating in the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) on Aug. 24, 2025. NORAD responded with an E-3, two F-16s, and two KC-135s tanker to intercept and visually identify the Russian aircraft in the Alaskan ADIZ. The […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Monday released the following statement after the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) released video of a Russian Su-35 aircraft conducting a dangerous maneuver next to an Alaska-based U.S. Air Force fighter during an intercept on September 23 in Alaska’s Air Defense […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military has confirmed another Russian military aircraft was tracked while operating near the U.S. state of Alaska on Monday, the second such incident in less than a week. North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said that it had “detected and tracked” one Russian military aircraft while it was operating in the Alaska […]
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) reports that F-16 and F-22 fighter jets accompanied by KC-135 stratotankers and E-3 AWACS intercepted six Russian aircraft comprised of TU-95 bombers, IL-78 tankers and SU-35 fighter jets as they entered the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone on Saturday. The aircraft never entered U.S. or Canadian sovereign airspace, […]