Posted on 04/15/2025 8:57:49 PM PDT by bitt
Russian military activity was also detected near Alaska in February and in December.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command said Tuesday that Russian warplanes were flying off the coast of Alaska and were being tracked by the U.S. military.
NORAD made it clear that the planes were not a threat and that they did not go into Canadian or American airspace, according to CBS News.
The number of planes was also not made clear.
"NORAD employs a layered defense network of satellites, ground-based and airborne radars and fighter aircraft to detect and track aircraft and inform appropriate actions," the aerospace and defense company said in a statement. "NORAD remains ready to employ a number of response options in defense of North America."
Russian military activity was also detected near Alaska in February and in December of last year.
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There is nothing particularly unusual about this.
This has been going on for decades.
How is this news?
Look at it as a weather report.
Nothing unusual about illegal alien gang members pouring over our border either.
You loyal to Russia or the USA?
It seems there are some people here who
just enjoy starting arguments for no reason.
I was stationed for a year in Galena, AK, which had one of the combat alert cells that were station in Alaska. Now they are down to one at Elmendorf that flies F22’s.
During the earlier years of the cold war it was not unusual for Rusia to fly aircraft into our air space using anything from fighters to bombers. The newest being the SU-57 stealth. The gathering point for all information is located at JBLM (Lewis/McChord) in Tacoma being called WADS (Western Area Defence system) They over see everything on the continent from western Alaska through most of the US and work with Canada.
wy69
I was stationed for a year in Galena, AK, which had one of the combat alert cells that were station in Alaska. Now they are down to one at Elmendorf that flies F22’s.
During the earlier years of the cold war it was not unusual for Rusia to fly aircraft into our air space using anything from fighters to bombers. The newest being the SU-57 stealth. The gathering point for all information is located at JBLM (Lewis/McChord) in Tacoma being called WADS (Western Area Defence system) They over see everything on the continent from western Alaska through most of the US and work with Canada.
wy69
Do you suppose it is related to fact that Russia is near Alaska?
My dad helped deploy RB-47 flights which sniffed along the Arctic edges of the Soviet Union, in the ‘50s . Many air crews were never seen again. We could never say a thing.
Maybe it’s time to pay back the Rooskies for those lost air crews, in kind.
I’m sure they would understand
“There is nothing particularly unusual about this.”
Unless you are a zeeper trying to stir things up
Not implying the OP is a zeeper.....
I wonder if it was those old dual-prop driven bomber relics they like to fly around? (double counter-rotating props, they called them the BEAR IIRC)
Also, Adak has three piers, two 8,000 ft. runways, a big hangar, 22 million gallons of fuel storage — one of the biggest fuel storage depots anywhere on the planet Earth, The CNO just sent a team up there — Navy, State of Alaska, the Aleut Corporation. Adak was closed due to BRAC in the early 90's..
“During the earlier years of the cold war it was not unusual for Rusia to fly aircraft into our air space using anything from fighters to bombers”
They have so far never flown into our airspace. They do fly into what we call an Air Defense Identification Zone, called an ADIZ. That is not our airspace, it is an arbitrary zone where we deem it prudent to go see what it is when someone flies into it.
Inside the 12 mile limit is our airspace.
The story is told that Russian subs would lurk off the Naval air station when they were testing the Tomahawk missile. Shooting them to China Lake. Sometimes they were track the rockets in rubber boats. When the Coast Guard chased off the subs, the sailors would dump their gear into the sea, paddle in to Point Mugu, then hitch hike—in uniform down PCH to Neptune’s Net where they traded medals, Russian Money and trinkets for beer and boiled shrimp. Eat, Drink and be drunk when the SP picked them up. They had a story of being swept overboard. and got a free flight back to Mother Russia. We did many of the same things to Russia. It was like a game.
Adak would have been a better Gitmo than Gitmo!
(US military detects Russian warplanes flying near Alaska: NORAD)
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“ There is nothing particularly unusual about this.”
Correct! I was launch controller at Galena AK Combat Alert Center in the 70s and it was a constant cat and mouse game with Russian Bear Bombers skirting the ADIZ.
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