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Russian Spy Planes Enter Alaska Air Defense Zone In 1st Since Ukraine War: NORAD

By lance goodall

BY TYLER DURDEN Zero Hedge

 

The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has revealed that Russian aircraft breached the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) twice in the past two days, according to a fresh statement.

The Alaskan NORAD “detected, tracked and identified Russian surveillance aircraft entering and operating within” the zone off the Alaskan coast, according to an official statement posted to Twitter.

While the ADIZ is not considered technically part of US airspace, it is airspace over which the US requires identification and tracking of aircraft in the interest of national security, which acts as a buffer before planes enter national airspace proper.

On this point, NORAD noted that “The Russian aircraft did not enter American or Canadian sovereign airspace.”

 

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