Russian IL-20 spy plane observed near Alaska for the fourth time in a week

On Tuesday, the U.S. military scrambled a fighter plane to monitor a Russian spy aircraft spotted flying near Alaska, as reported by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). This marked the fourth occasion recently that NORAD tracked the Russian IL-20 Coot, a Cold War-era reconnaissance plane, within Alaska’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). Previously, […]