Posted on 09/10/2001 1:10:39 PM PDT by oxi-nato
Edited on 07/06/2004 6:36:28 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Air Force said Sunday it will be sending fighter aircraft to locations in Alaska and Northern Canada to monitor a Russian air force exercise in the Russian arctic and North Pacific Region.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command, based at Colorado Springs, Colo., said in a statement it conducted a similar operation during the first two weeks of December last year in response to a similar, but smaller Russian deployment of long-range bombers at northern Russian air bases.
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