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Video: Russian fighters intercept US bombers, then send 5 warplanes near Alaska

American Military News

OCTOBER 25, 2021 – By

The U.S. and Russia had tit-for-tat military flights near each other’s borders last week, with Russian fighter jets intercepting two U.S. bombers and two aerial refueling tankers flying near Russia and then Russian sending five of its own warplanes towards Alaska two days later.

On Tuesday, the Russian Ministry of Defense posted footage taken from the cockpit of a Su-30 fighter jet as it and another Su-30 fighter intercepted and escorted a U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer and a KC-135 Stratotanker flying over the Black Sea near Russia.

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