NORAD scrambles fighter jets after Russian aircraft detected in Alaska ADIZ

NORAD scrambled U.S. and Canadian combatant jets Wednesday aft detecting 2 Russian subject craft operating successful the Alaskan and Canadian Air Defense Identification Zones (ADIZ), officials said.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command said it detected and tracked 2 Russian TU-142 subject craft operating successful the Alaskan and Canadian ADIZ connected March 4, 2026.

NORAD launched 2 U.S. Air Force F-35 combatant aircraft, 2 F-22 combatant aircraft, 4 KC-135 tankers, 1 E-3 AWACS aircraft, 2 Canadian CF-18 combatant craft and 1 CC-150 tanker to positively identify, show and intercept the Russian craft successful the American and Canadian ADIZ, according to the command.

F-35 jets alert adjacent Elmendorf-Richardson Joint Base successful Alaska, United States connected August 15, 2025.  (Fatih Aktas/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The Russian craft remained successful planetary airspace and did not participate U.S. oregon Canadian sovereign airspace, NORAD said. The bid added that specified enactment successful the Alaskan and Canadian ADIZ occurs regularly and is not considered a threat.

An F-22 Raptor flies successful this undated representation provided by Lockheed Martin. (Lockheed Martin via Getty Images)

The incidental follows a akin brushwood past month, erstwhile NORAD intercepted 5 Russian subject aircraft— including 2 Tu-95 bombers, 2 Su-35 combatant jets and an A-50 airborne aboriginal informing craft — operating adjacent the Bering Strait disconnected Alaska’s occidental coast. In that case, NORAD launched F-16 and F-35 combatant jets, supported by an E-3 craft and refueling tankers, to place and escort the Russian planes until they departed the area.

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Arctic Thunder Air Show is performed astatine Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) subject installation arsenic it welcomes much than 300,000 visitors, organized arsenic a nationalist lawsuit and featured 7 antithetic planetary partners successful assorted capacities successful Anchorage, Alaska, United States connected July 22, 2024.  (Hasan Akbas/Anadolu via Getty Images)

NORAD said the craft successful that brushwood besides remained successful planetary airspace, did not participate U.S. oregon Canadian sovereign territory and were not viewed arsenic provocative.

Air Defense Identification Zones statesman wherever sovereign airspace ends and widen into planetary airspace. Aircraft entering an ADIZ are expected to place themselves successful the involvement of nationalist security, according to NORAD.

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NORAD, headquartered astatine Peterson Space Force Base successful Colorado, employs a layered defence web of satellites, ground-based and airborne radars, and combatant craft to observe and way craft and find due responses.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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