TOKYO/MOSCOW, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Japan has scrambled jets to monitor Russian and Chinese air forces conducting joint patrols around the country, the Japanese defence ministry said late Tuesday, amid ...

China and Russia have mounted a joint bomber incursion against Japan, resulting in the scrambling of Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) fighters. On 9 December, a pair of Russian Tupolev Tu-95 ...

A Russian Tu-95 bomber and a Chinese J-16 spotted flying between Okinawa and Miyako Island Dec. 9, 2025. Japan’s Joint Staff Office photo Russian and Chinese bombers conducted a joint patrol Tuesday, ...

NATO air planners looking east during the Cold War faced a vast, intimidating armada of bombers and attack aircraft. With superior numbers, the Soviet Union and the other Warsaw Pact nations ...

This is the second time since February 2020 the rare Russian aircraft has been intercepted. The twin-engine jet is a derivative of the Soviet-era Tu-134 narrow-body airliner that first flew in July ...

A surprise Ukrainian drone attack that targeted several Russian air bases hosting nuclear-capable strategic bombers was unprecedented in its scope and sophistication and for the first time reached as ...

TO REACH THE strange, remote island of Adak, be patient. Such is the summer fog over the waters of the Aleutian Islands that it took this reporter four attempts in four days, including two aborted ...

Images shared with Newsweek have shown NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) aircraft escorting Russian military planes that flew within 30 nautical miles of the U.S. mainland. NORAD said ...

Russian aircraft were intercepted over the Alaska ADIZ and the Baltic Sea hours after Trump suggested NATO should shoot down intruding jets. Two formations of Russian aircraft have been intercepted ...

The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) detected two Russian nuclear bombers and fighter jets operating around Alaska’s air defense zone on Wednesday. NORAD said two Tu-95 “Bear” bombers, ...