{"id":6930,"date":"2025-04-15T07:06:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T07:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=6930"},"modified":"2025-04-15T07:06:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T07:06:52","slug":"russian-military-aircraft-detected-off-of-alaska-defense-zone-norad-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=6930","title":{"rendered":"Russian military aircraft detected off of Alaska defense zone, NORAD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">The U.S. detected and tracked Russian military aircraft that entered the Air Defense Identification Zone off of Alaska on Monday, the U.S. military said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The ADIZ is an area that stretches out 150 miles from U.S. territory, where the U.S. requires aircraft to have their transponders on or to identify themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;This Russian activity in Alaskan ADIZ occurs regularly and is not seen as a threat,&#8221; the North American Aerospace Defense Command said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">There was no NORAD intercept on Monday, the military said, adding that NORAD tracked the aircraft as they flew through the ADIZ without entering U.S. or Canadian airspace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">U.S. territorial airspace and waters begin 12 nautical miles from the coastline.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. detected and tracked Russian military aircraft that entered the Air Defense Identification Zone off of Alaska on Monday, the U.S. military said. The ADIZ is an area that stretches out 150 miles from U.S. territory, where the U.S. requires aircraft to have their transponders on or to identify themselves. &#8220;This Russian activity in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6932,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6930\/revisions\/6932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}