[AnotherUnixGeek]

Pardon what is probably a dumb question, but do the Russians conduct such exercises hoping to get intercepts by F-22s, in order to get more info about these planes? Otherwise, what’s the point - they have decades worth of info about US airspace detection capabilities near Alaska?

[thackney]

Otherwise, what’s the point

I would guess to query current response time.

[mac_truck]

It may have been part of a (much) larger military exercise called Volstok 2014 the Russians were conducting in the eastern part of their nation.