{"id":771712,"date":"2023-11-10T05:40:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T09:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=771712"},"modified":"2023-11-10T05:40:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T09:40:55","slug":"us-jets-intercept-russian-aircraft-near-alaska-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=771712","title":{"rendered":"US jets intercept Russian aircraft near Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Two American F-16 warplanes intercepted four Russian aircraft near Alaska, the joint US-Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201croutine\u201d intercept of the Russian planes \u2014 which included Tu-95 bomber and Su-35 fighter aircraft \u2014 occurred Monday, NORAD said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussian aircraft remained in international airspace and did not enter American or Canadian sovereign airspace,\u201d it said, adding that such Russian activity \u201coccurs regularly and is not seen as a threat, nor is the activity seen as provocative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the intercept of the Russian aircraft was routine, US warplanes stationed in North America saw rare offensive action this month, shooting down an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon and three unidentified objects.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defencetalk.com\/us-jets-intercept-russian-aircraft-near-alaska-79847\/?rand=771656\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two American F-16 warplanes intercepted four Russian aircraft near Alaska, the joint US-Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said Tuesday. The \u201croutine\u201d intercept of the Russian planes \u2014 which&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":771713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=771712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/771713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=771712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=771712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=771712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}