Two Russian bombers, a TU-95 and a TU-142 were intercepted and escorted by twin NORAD F-22 fighters at 6 am on Friday morning spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command Canadian Army Major Andrew Hennessy told CNN. The Russian bombers crossed into the Air Defense Identification Zone 200 miles off-shore of western Alaska north of […]
BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) – China scrambled fighter jets on Tuesday as a U.S. navy ship sailed close to a disputed reef in the South China Sea, a patrol China denounced as an illegal threat to peace which only went to show its defense installations in the area were necessary. Guided missile destroyer the USS William […]
Two U.S. fighter jets escorted an Air France passenger plane to a safe landing in New York Monday morning following one of several threats that were made against commercial aircraft. An anonymous threat came in a telephone call to a Maryland State police barracks Monday, prompting the military to scramble F-15 jets as Air France […]