Enemy Jets INTERCEPTED – They Came CLOSE

Fighter jets from the United States and Canadian defense forces were scrambled on the evening of Wednesday the 24th as President Biden addressed the American people from the Oval Office. The target of the fighter jets was an aerial convoy of Russian and Chinese strategic bombers capable of delivering nuclear warheads.

The enemy planes were aloft due to a set of war games being conducted by the Russians and Chinese during a period of acute instability within the U.S. political establishment. No word, however, has leaked as to whether the war games were an opportunistic test of U.S. defense capabilities or if the incident had long been planned and the Chinese and Russian generals just got lucky with their timing.

A Chinese H-6 jet (a licensed clone of the old Soviet era Tu-16 Russian bombers) and a Russian Tu-95MS turboprop were both intercepted near the Alaskan border.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command center—NORAD—first detected the aircraft as they crossed into Alaska’s Air Defense Identification Zone and proceeded to track them. The formation, which included both the bombers and a wing of escort fighters, was flying a five hour long joint patrol route above the Bearing Sea, the Chukchi Sea, and the north Pacific in a show of force. Such shows of force (and symbolic exhibitions of military alliances) are a common form of communication between rival powers, especially during periods of elevated international tensions.

The display comes shortly after Vladimir Putin conducted nuclear war drills as part of his efforts to marshal fear of Western powers and stoke solidarity among the Russian people. They were the second set of such drills in less than a month.

The Russian and Chinese military aircraft conducted themselves in such a fashion that, despite triggering a perimeter response, they were not considered an active threat. The foreign flight wing was careful to stay over international waters and not to enter U.S. territorial airspace.