{"id":122064,"date":"2021-04-28T19:23:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T02:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/spike-in-russian-aircraft-intercepts-straining-air-force-crews-in-alaska-three-star-says"},"modified":"2021-04-28T19:23:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T02:23:51","slug":"spike-in-russian-aircraft-intercepts-straining-air-force-crews-in-alaska-three-star-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/spike-in-russian-aircraft-intercepts-straining-air-force-crews-in-alaska-three-star-says","title":{"rendered":"Spike in Russian aircraft intercepts straining Air Force crews in Alaska, three-star says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spike-in-russian-aircraft-intercepts-straining-air-force-crews-in-alaska-three-star-says2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Intercepting record numbers of Russian aircraft off of North America\u2019s west coast has stretched Air Force units thin, a top service official in Alaska said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have certainly seen an increase in Russian activity. We intercepted over 60 aircraft last year. \u2026 We monitor more than that,\u201d Lt. Gen. David Krumm said from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, during an online forum hosted by the Air Force Association.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the most action the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone \u2014 a region spanning 200 nautical miles that reaches past U.S. territory and into international airspace \u2014 has seen since the Soviet Union fell in 1991. In comparison, the Anchorage Daily News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adn.com\/military\/article\/russian-military-increasing-capabilities-overflights-near-alaska-airspace\/2015\/03\/14\/\">reported in 2015<\/a> that the ADIZ averaged about 10 incursions by Russian aircraft each year, like Tu-95 Bear bombers, anti-submarine aircraft, and intelligence-collection planes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intercepting record numbers of Russian aircraft off of North America\u2019s west coast has stretched Air Force units thin, a top service official in Alaska said Wednesday. \u201cWe have certainly seen an increase in Russian activity. We intercepted over 60 aircraft last year. \u2026 We monitor more than that,\u201d Lt. Gen. David Krumm said from Joint [\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-122064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122064","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=122064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}