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The North American Aerospace Protection command intercepted Russian army plane flying close to Alaska thrice during the last week in what seems to be an uptick in exercise amid tensions between the US and Russia.

On all three events the plane remained in worldwide airspace in Alaska’s Air Protection Identification Zone (ADIZ) and had been “not seen as a risk” in response to NORAD.

ADIZ “begins the place sovereign airspace ends and is an outlined stretch of worldwide airspace that requires the prepared identification of all plane within the curiosity of nationwide safety,” NORAD stated.

The US and Canada, which make up NORAD, first intercepted a pair of Russian army plane on Wednesday. On Friday, a pair of TU-142s, Russian reconnaissance and anti-submarine plane, had been detected by NORAD. Sooner or later later, the US and Canada intercepted two Russian IL-38 planes, one other kind of reconnaissance and anti-submarine army plane.

The plane this previous week didn’t enter US or Canadian sovereign airspace, NORAD stated. Russian flights into the ADIZ happen “often” with current interceptions occurring in July and Might.

Earlier this summer time, NORAD intercepted two Russian and two Chinese language bombers flying close to Alaska in what officers stated was the primary time the 2 nations have been intercepted whereas working collectively.

Requested on the time whether or not that intercept was an instance of Russia and China “testing” the US after President Joe Biden determined to tug out of the 2024 presidential race, Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin stated that Russia and China are “at all times testing us.”