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US fighters were scrambled to intercept
MOSCOW, February 16 - RIA Novosti. US Air Force fighters were scrambled to intercept two Russian strategic bombers Tu-95, which operates flights around the US island of Guam in the Pacific Ocean, reports on Saturday broadcaster NBC News, without specifying the date of the incident
The US military reported the TV channel that found on the radar two turboprop strategic bombers, according to NATO classification wearing the nickname "Bear". Their potential interception of a US Air Force base "Andersen" flew the F-15.
However, the TV station reported that "contact between the American and Russian aircraft was on a professional level," without incident, and that Russian bombers all the time remained in international airspace. The US military explained that the flight of two Russian long-range bombers, which involves aerial refueling, they detected with radar and satellites, as Tu-95 took off from an airfield in north-eastern Russia.
According to the channel, the Japanese military also raised in the air his fighters on alert when Russian planes were flying very close to the airspace of Japan. Set whether the "Bears" on board a nuclear weapon, it is not possible, said NBC News.
For its part, a spokesman for the Defense Ministry of the Air Force stated that no scheduled flights of bombers in the Pacific in recent years has not been.
The island of Guam, in the western part of the Pacific Ocean in the archipelago Mariana Islands, part of the US, but its residents have no right to participate in national elections.
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The US military reported the TV channel that found on the radar two turboprop strategic bombers, according to NATO classification wearing the nickname "Bear". Their potential interception of a US Air Force base "Andersen" flew the F-15.
However, the TV station reported that "contact between the American and Russian aircraft was on a professional level," without incident, and that Russian bombers all the time remained in international airspace. The US military explained that the flight of two Russian long-range bombers, which involves aerial refueling, they detected with radar and satellites, as Tu-95 took off from an airfield in north-eastern Russia.
According to the channel, the Japanese military also raised in the air his fighters on alert when Russian planes were flying very close to the airspace of Japan. Set whether the "Bears" on board a nuclear weapon, it is not possible, said NBC News.
For its part, a spokesman for the Defense Ministry of the Air Force stated that no scheduled flights of bombers in the Pacific in recent years has not been.
The island of Guam, in the western part of the Pacific Ocean in the archipelago Mariana Islands, part of the US, but its residents have no right to participate in national elections.
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