NORAD releases video of ‘unsafe, unprofessional’ Russian fighter aircraft intercept

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The North American Aerospace Defense Command tracked four Russian military aircraft operating in Alaska’s Air Defense Identification Zone last Monday.

An ADIZ is the airspace that surrounds a country’s sovereign airspace, so Alaska’s ADIZ borders the state’s sovereign airspace. The Russian aircraft operated within Alaska’s ADIZ but did not enter the United States or Canada’s sovereign airspace. 

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