2024-05-05 01:35:00
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad) announced that it detected and tracked this Thursday two Russian military aircraft operating near the airspace of Alaska, in the United States. According to the agency, the aircraft remained in the international zone and did not enter the sovereign airspace of the United States or Canada.
As specified by the Russian Ministry of Defense, At least one Su-35S and one Su-30SM carried the nuclear bombers during the mission. One of the planes could be seen in a video published by the Russian news agency RIA Novosti, film on board Tu-95MS. Russia explained that the two planes carried out an 11-hour mission over the neutral waters of the Bering Sea, near the west coast of Alaska, escorted by armed Flanker fighters and, ““At certain stages of the route, bombers with strategic missiles accompanied by fighters from foreign countries”.
The map shows the route taken by the Russian planes (Photo: Arte O Globo)
It should be noted that the Tu-95 model was launched on the market in 1954, but did not enter service until 1956, and is currently used in the Russian Air Force Naval Aviation units and the Russian Air Force Armies. , as well as in the Indian Air Force. Although, according to the specialized portal Air Force Technology, The older model is still: Its first flight took place in 1954, and the Tu-95 entered service just two years later.
The plane can reach a maximum speed of 650 km/h and has a flight range of 6,400 km. This Tupolev periodically carried out long-range patrols in NATO countries and in the airspace of the United States until the end of the Cold War. In July 2010, two Tu-95MS bombers, model Bear-H, They broke a new flight duration recordwith 40 hours of patrol over three oceans.
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