'Russian fighters identified the aerial target as a pair of B-52H strategic bombers of the US Air Force,' Moscow's Defense Ministry said.
Russian jets were scrambled to prevent two U.S. military long-range bomber aircraft from crossing over into Russia, Moscow's Defense Ministry said on Sunday.Russian MiG-29 and MiG-31 fighter jets identified two U.S. Air Force B-52H heavy bombers closing in on the border after Russia detected aerial targets over the Barents Sea, the Kremlin said in a statement posted to social media.The Barents Sea sits north of Finland, Sweden and Norway, as well as northwestern Russia.
Russia scrambled an MiG-31 fighter jet, and the Poseidon 'turned away' from Russian airspace, the defense ministry said at the time.Moscow said in March that one of its MiG-31 fighter jets had been scrambled to intercept two U.S. Air Force B-1B strategic bombers over the Barents Sea. In September 2023, Russia said a MiG-31 had met a U.S. Navy P-8A approaching its airspace in the same area.
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