The two bombers, known as “Bear” bombers, came within 50 kilometres of Canada's coastline in the Beaufort Sea in the early morning hours Thursday, CTV’s Mercedes Stephenson first reported Friday.
NORAD radar detected the bombers around 1:30 a.m., and two CF-18s were scrambled from an undisclosed location in northwest Canada, Stephenson reported.
When the Russians saw the Canadian planes, they turned back.
Poroshenko had addressed Parliament on Wednesday afternoon.
The bombers entered what is known as the Air Defence Identification Zone. When civilian jets cross into this area, they are required to identify themselves both for security purposes and to prevent accidents.
While it is not unusual to have Russian bombers fly close to Canadian airspace, a senior government source said that “this was a particularly close event,” Stephenson said.
NORAD is also reporting that six Russian aircraft -- including refueling tanks and MIGs -- were intercepted about 60 kilometres from the Alaskan coast on the same day. The U.S. scrambled two F-22s to warn them off. Moscow says they were simply engaged in military exercises and did not breach Canadian or American airspace.
The incident comes a couple of weeks after Russian planes “buzzed” a Canadian frigate taking part in a NATO mission in the Black Sea, where a U.S. warship was also tracked by Russian ships and planes.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/russian-bombers-intercepted-near-canadian-airspace-1.2015670
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Russian planes intercepted near U.S., Canadian airspace
(CNN) -- Two U.S. jets intercepted six Russian planes that neared U.S. airspace off Alaska on Thursday and Canadian planes intercepted two Russian bombers that approached Canadian airspace, NORAD reported.
A
U.S. official told CNN's Barbara Starr that officials in Washington
think the incidents were related to the visit by Ukrainian President
Petro Poroshenko,
who talked to Canadian officials Wednesday and President Barack Obama
on Thursday. The United States promised Ukraine $46 million in nonlethal
aid for its battle with pro-Russian militants.
The Russian aircraft flew
within about 55 nautical miles of the Alaskan coastline and about 40
nautical miles of the Canadian coastline, said Capt. Jeff Davis of the
North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD.
Two Alaskan-based F-22
fighter jets intercepted two Russian IL-78 refueling tankers, two
Russian Mig-31 fighter jets and two Russian Bear long-range bombers, a
statement from NORAD said. The Russian planes flew in a loop and
returned toward Russia.
Two Canadian CF-18 fighter jets intercepted two Russian Bear long-range bombers in the Beaufort Sea, the statement said.
Though the planes did not
enter sovereign territory, the statement said, they did enter the U.S.
Air Defense Identification Zone west of Alaska and the Canadian ADIZ,
according to a statement.
The ADIZ is a zone of
airspace which extends approximately 200 miles from the coastline and is
mainly within international airspace, according to the statement. The
outer limits of the ADIZ go beyond U.S. sovereign air space.
State aircraft of
sovereign nations are not required to file flight plans. NORAD said it
has intercepted more than 50 Russian aircraft in the last five years.
NORAD jets usually intercept one or two Russian planes, normally
bombers.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/19/us/russian-plane-incidents/index.html
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