Twice in mid-September, Canadian and American fighter jets scrambled as a total of six Russian bombers flew near the North Pole, piercing in the process the jointly administered Canadian and American “air defense identification zone,” which rings North America and requires those who enter it to radio their destination. (The Russian aircraft did not do so.)
Russian fighters now routinely buzz the Baltics and have also penetrated the airspace of Finland and Sweden. Earlier this summer, four Russian aircraft flew within 50 miles of the coast of California before veering off. As NATO forces conducted exercises in the Baltics last …read more
Source: Newsweek
