A few hours after the Russian aircraft intercept, NORAD dispatched two Alaska-based F-16 fighters to Greenland. The news release says that sortie also was not related to any current threat.

NEW YORK, May 3. /TASS/. The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said it had detected and tracked four Russian military planes off Alaska. "NORAD detected and tracked four Russian ...

Advertisement Hours later, NORAD sent a U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jets to Greenland from a base in Alaska, part of what the military command calls a standard agreement "to forward posture NORAD ...

Several hours later, NORAD said it also scrambled two F-16 fighter jets from Alaska to Greenland in order to "forward posture NORAD presence in the Arctic." The command said that move was "not in ...

Feb. 7 (UPI) --Four Russian military aircraft were spotted near Alaska on Tuesday, according to the North American Aerospace Defense Command. In a press release Tuesday, NORAD said it "detected ...

"NORAD detected, tracked, and intercepted two Russian TU-95 and two PRC H-6 military aircraft operating in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone," the agency said in a statement NEW YORK ...

the North American Aerospace Defense Command confirmed. Photo courtesy of NORAD ...

and an air patrol from its Alaskan NORAD Region off the coast of the Alaska/Yukon border, to further track the activity." The military organization scrambled a pair of Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 ...