In March, the head of US Northern Command, Gen. Gregory Guillot, said China was pushing farther north into the Arctic and he expected to see aircraft there “as soon as this year potentially.”
File photo: Day breaks at the North American Aerospace Defense Command Point Barrow Long Range Radar Site, north of the northernmost town in the United States in Utqiagvik, Alaska, in February 2023.The North American Aerospace Defense Command intercepted two Russian and two Chinese bombers flying near Alaska Wednesday in what appears to be the first time
The US and Canada, which together comprise NORAD, intercepted the Russian TU-95 Bear and Chinese H-6 bombers. The aircraft did not enter US or Canadian sovereign airspace, NORAD said.
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