{"id":47998,"date":"2025-09-25T14:07:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2025\/09\/25\/russian-warplanes-detected-flying-near-alaska-again-us-military-says\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T16:15:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:15:05","slug":"russian-warplanes-detected-flying-near-alaska-again-us-military-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/air\/2025\/09\/25\/russian-warplanes-detected-flying-near-alaska-again-us-military-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian warplanes detected flying near Alaska again, US military says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

U.S. fighter jets scrambled to identify and intercept four Russian warplanes flying near Alaska, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s the third time in about a month and the ninth time this year NORAD has reported such an incident involving Russian aircraft flying near Alaska. This latest incident happened Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NORAD said in a statement issued early Thursday that it detected and tracked two Tu-95s and two Su-35s operating in the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nine U.S. aircraft \u2014 an E-3 Sentry command and control aircraft, four F-16s and four KC-135 tankers \u2014 scrambled to positively identify and intercept the Russian jets, NORAD said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Russian aircraft remained in international airspace and did not enter American or Canadian sovereign airspace, it said. Such Russian activity near Alaska occurs regularly and is not seen as a threat, it added in its statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The incident comes after President Donald Trump said Tuesday he believed Ukraine could win back all territory lost to Russia, a dramatic shift from the Republican\u2019s repeated calls for Kyiv to make concessions to end Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\t