U.S. fighter jets intercept Russian bombers

Two U.S. fighter jets intercepted two Russian bombers flying near the western coast of Alaska on Friday, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said in a statement. The incident happened as the Russian jets were flying in the Air Defense Identification Zone around Alaska's western coast, north of the Aleutian Islands.

[disorganizedorg]

"intercept" is click bait. This happened in international air space; "encountered" was the word your incompetent copy editor was looking for, .

[brockk]

You make one vodka delivery and nows its a bombing run or something

[PlotkaiTrollstorm]

New season of Deadliest Catch looks interesting.

[amberselledge]

testing the boundaries to see if they're being watched

[thedoctorairsoft]

how is this not major news? 20.878 views? are you joking why is this not geting 2 million views at the least?!

[ozwzrd]

The plural of aircraft is aircraft, not "aircrafts".

[andrewchristiansen]

"Not sure why the Russian bombers got so close."
1) Russia is CLOSE to Alaska.
2) If they were guarding the perimeter of their own country they would be "close"

[konstantingeist]

"it's not clear why the bombers came so close" maybe because alaska is next to Russia

[ijvo]

The Bering Strait is about 82 kilometres (51 mi) wide at its narrowest point, between Cape Dezhnev, Chukchi Peninsula, Russia, the easternmost point (169° 43' W) of the Asian continent and Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, United States, the westernmost point (168° 05' W) of the North American continent. Its depth varies between 30 metres (98 ft) and 50 metres (160 ft).[6] It borders with the Chukchi Sea (part of the Arctic Ocean) to north and with the Bering Sea to south.

[mrquik]

Fox is bored so they're reporting on planes flying in international airspace you've got to be kidding.

[frankhobsonKJCDM]

Interception in international space? Mmm seem like a lot of non news 200 miles is a pretty good ways.

[awkwardoccurrences.john]

Russia didn't fly half way across your globe map to Alaska. Really.

[silvinchoren]

200miles? USA has navy ships 60miles of the russian coast.

[SaraS-jqln]

Why would a bomber plane... of an enemy county.... come close to our land...? I don't know Miss Reporter, it's baffling 🤔🤔

[richardm]

International airspace 'nuff said.

[FerrariKing]

They came close because they some times do. Most likely a simple mistake.

[jc]

Red Dawn!! It's just a test flight to document timing, and see how fast they get intercepted. And to show that they can get close enough to nuke us before they get intercepted ... A game of chess or battleship anyone ?

[nunyanunya]

do we need to do a re-re-make ov red dawn? this time keep the russians in?

[waynebess]

It was all cordinated before hand just like the strikes in Syria.

[phyllisarrington]

"...in international air space."
INTERNATIONAL being the operative word.