Wionews: Two US F-22 fighter jets escorted Tu-95MC Russian strategic bombers over the Arctic Ocean, the Interfax news agency cited the Russian Defence Ministry as saying on Friday. Russian warplanes carried out planned flights over neutral waters in the Arctic Ocean, and the Bering and Okhotsk seas, and were escorted by US jets on parts of the flights, the Defence Ministry was quoted as saying.
Earlier, as per reports, a spokesman for the Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said that the F-22 jets intercepted two Russian Tu-95 ‘Bear’ long-range bombers on Saturday.
The Russians referred to that mission as a routine flight and under the international rules of using airspace.
Earlier this week the Japan Air Force (JASDF) scrambled fighter jets to intercept two long-range Tupolev Tu-142MZ maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine aircraft and a supersonic Sukhoi Su-24 flying off the islands of Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu.
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