North American Aerospace Defense Command / Alaskan NORAD Regional Air Defense Identification Zone

Eielson-based F-16s intercept 2 Russian bombers near Alaska

F-22 And F-35 Stealth Fighters Are ‘Going To War’ In Red-Flag Alaska

NEWS | June 9, 2017 | Red Flag-Alaska begins

RED FLAG-Alaska, a series of Pacific Air Forces commander-directed field training exercises for U.S. forces, provides joint offensive counter-air, interdiction, close air support, and large force employment training in a simulated combat environment.

NO RAD detects, tracks, identifies and intercepts Russian aircraft entering Air Defense Identification Zone

Russia's current war on Ukraine raises the question of whether Alaska is the next target after Ukraine for Putin's conquest.

Check for the Purchase of Alaska (1868)
Actually a Treasury Warrant issued in the amount of $7,200,000 to Edouard de Stoeckl, Russian minister to the United States, with a transcript of the Treaty of Cession, signed by His Majesty Tzar Alexander II, Emperor of all the Russias.

The question is also raised of military enforcement of Red-Flag laws and most particularly gun control ordinances.

a reply to: justinacolmena

Russian aircraft have been intercepted in the Alaska ADIZ for decades, with the exception of a short period when they stopped the flights after the fall of the Soviet Union.

I served on an aircraft carrier from '79-'81. American and Russian fighter pilots would harass each other all the time. It was pretty much expected.

a reply to: Zaphod58

Recently there were Russian and Chinese Military ships moving along side together near Alaskan borders.
Chinese is a first.

a reply to: justinacolmena

Not a chance. Putin will focus on areas around current russia long long before he considers taking on the usa.

Fighting the usa is an end game move.

originally posted by: ussmidway
I served on an aircraft carrier from '79-'81. American and Russian fighter pilots would harass each other all the time. It was pretty much expected.

Somewhere I have a picture of an F-14 flying near a Soviet May patrol aircraft. In it you can plainly see the RIO wearing a gorilla mask and a Soviet Airman in an observation blister pointing at him while laughing.

a reply to: vNex92

China is trying to become a blue water Navy. They were going to be seen around the area at some point. It was pretty much inevitable.

a reply to: Zaphod58

They have a long way to go.

a reply to: JIMC5499

Oh yeah. But they’ve also come a long way.

a reply to: Zaphod58

Their main problem is Blue Water Ops and their supply chain. Blue Water Ops is where you fly in an area where a plane has to land on the carrier because it can't carry enough fuel to make it to a shore base.

By Supply Chain, I mean that they don't have the capability for being replenished at sea.

a reply to: JIMC5499

Not on a large scale, like a carrier, but they have conducted blue water ops with smaller forces, including UNREP. They have a fairly regular anti piracy patrol in the Gulf of Aden, protecting their fishing boats in the area. It's usually a couple of destroyers and a replenishment ship. They definitely have a long way to go, before they're doing UNREP with a carrier, but even smaller ships gets them experience at it.