{"id":114788,"date":"2020-10-20T21:23:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T04:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/norad-f-22s-intercept-russian-fighters-bombers-near-alaska"},"modified":"2020-10-20T21:23:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T04:23:31","slug":"norad-f-22s-intercept-russian-fighters-bombers-near-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/norad-f-22s-intercept-russian-fighters-bombers-near-alaska","title":{"rendered":"NORAD F-22s intercept Russian fighters, bombers near Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/norad-f-22s-intercept-russian-fighters-bombers-near-alaska2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>F-22 Raptors from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2020\/06\/10\/norad-f-22s-intercept-russian-bombers-near-alaska\/\" target=\"_blank\">North American Aerospace Defense Command<\/a>, or NORAD, intercepted a group of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2020\/09\/13\/us-air-force-flies-b-1-lancer-bombers-over-east-siberian-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\">Russian aircraft<\/a> in international airspace near Alaska Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of tweets early Tuesday morning, NORAD said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/your-air-force\/2020\/06\/10\/norad-f-22s-intercept-russian-bombers-near-alaska\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raptors intercepted<\/a> a pair of Russian Tu-95 \u201cBear\u201d bombers escorted by Su-35 fighters. NORAD said it also identified a Russian A-50 airborne early warning and control aircraft supporting the other Russian planes that \u201cloitered\u201d in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone and came within 30 nautical miles of Alaska\u2019s shore.<\/p>\n<p>NORAD said that all Russian aircraft remained in international airspace and at no time entered U.S. or Canadian airspace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F-22 Raptors from the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, intercepted a group of Russian aircraft in international airspace near Alaska Monday night. In a series of tweets early Tuesday morning, NORAD said the Raptors intercepted a pair of Russian Tu-95 \u201cBear\u201d bombers escorted by Su-35 fighters. NORAD said it also identified a Russian [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}