F-22s Scrambled To Investigate A Mysterious High-Altitude Balloon Off The Coast Of Hawaii (Updated)
The Air Force scrambled F-22s to intercept a mysterious balloon off the coast of Hawaii.
The Air Force scrambled F-22s to intercept a mysterious balloon off the coast of Hawaii.
Trump and the crowd below were not exactly sure what was going on, but cheered as the F-16 intercepted the wayward aircraft.
The incident took place on the same day another Flanker performed an unsafe maneuver very close to a B-52 flying over the Black Sea.
Russia is holding its largest naval drills in the Pacific in recent memory as the U.S. Navy’s big RIMPAC wargames are underway.
The sorties into the Sea of Okhotsk come amid an increase in American and Russian aerial activity around each others’ borders.
The incident follows the American military’s release of evidence that Russia has sent combat aircraft to join Libya’s civil war.
The U.S.-Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, has released a video, which U.S. Navy personnel down below captured, showing a pair of Russian Tu-142 Bear maritime patrol aircraft flying at relatively low altitude over a site off the coast of Northwest Alaska being used to support the latest iteration of the Navy’s ICEX submarine exercise.
Russia has disputed that one of its military aircraft violated South Korea’s national airspace over disputed islets in the Sea of Japan, as well as reports that South Korean fighter jets fired approximately 360 20mm cannon shells in a series of warning shots during the altercation. The incident occurred during a joint Russian-Chinese aerial patrol involving two Tu-95MS Bear bombers and an A-50 Mainstay airborne early warning and control aircraft from Russia’s military flying together with a pair of China’s H-6K bombers.
Russia says that it sent Su-27 Flankers to intercept multiple U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortresses flying over both the Baltic Sea and Black Sea regions today. In one of the encounters, one of the bombers was flying directly toward the Crimean Peninsula, which the Kremlin occupies, in what could have been a mock strike run. Another one of the B-52s subsequently made an emergency landing at RAF Mildenhall in the United Kingdom following an unrelated in-flight emergency.
Reports of two separate incidents, weeks apart, sound almost too similar to just be a coincidence.