Lemme guess: Alaskan Air National Guard greeting a Backfire bomber? Wait- isn’t Governor Palin in charge of the Alaskan Air National Guard?
is that the russian plane on the way to see comrade chavez?
the u.s. picked it up as it came over the artic circle.
That's an F-22 Raptor escorting that TU-95 and the AKANG does not have Raptors. However, the 11th AF 90th Fighter Squadron out of Elmendorf does have Raptors and Sarah Palin apparently vists them at times. Only problem is, she doesn't run the 11th Air Force. She did dispatch the AKANG to hurricanes Ike and Gustov in the last month & the Air Guard does from time to time run into Russians and escorts them out, but not in your photo.