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American military combat nozzles on Tuesday were hoared to follow them Russian spy plane Flying detected near Aljaska, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad).
It was the fourth time in less than a week military command He discovered and followed by Russian IL-20 Coot, the Cold War reconnaissance planes, in the Alaskan Air Defense, part of the September International Air Space that requires ready identification of all airplanes in the interest of national security.
The same kind of Russian aircraft flew around the region 20. August 21. August and 24. August, the military command said.
In each of the four cases, Norad replied with his own combat nozzles to follow the spy plane.
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Russian IL-20m, like the one in the picture, was found to fly in the field of Alaska identification zone, for the fourth time in less than a week, Norad said. (Nikita Shchiukin / AFP / Getty, File)
In the last discovery on Tuesday, Norad hid E-3 Sentra, Two F-16S and one KC-135 spy plane monitoring tank.
Norad said the Russian military aircraft remained in international airspace and did not enter Americans or Canadian The sovereign airspace, adding that such a Russian activity in Alaska Adiz regularly answers and cannot be seen as a threat.
“Norad employs a layered network of satellite, basic and aircraft and combat aircraft to detect and monitor aircraft and inform appropriate actions,” Military Order said. “Norad remains ready to use a number of responses to the North America’s defense.”
In July, Norad shared pictures of American combat nozzles overcoming Russian military aircraft within Adiz.
Other detections of Russian military aircraft in Adiz happened in April and twice in February, when Norad said the F-35 Lightning II fighter jet intercepted two Russian Tu-95 and 2 SU-35 military aircraft adizes.
In all these previous cases, Norad said the Russian planes remained in international airspace.
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Earlier in January, Norad said that she sent the fight against the air patrol to oversee more Russian military aircraft Activity in the Arctic.
Fox News’ Liz Frieden contributed to this report.