have any hear more about this?

[Hellfighter]

One day before U.S. President Barack Obama's Canadian visit last week, Canadian fighter jets intercepted two Russian bombers near Canadian air space, the defense minister said Friday.

"At no time did Russian planes enter Canadian air space, but within 24 hours of the president's visit here ... we did scramble F-18 fighter planes from NORAD in Canada command," Peter MacKay said in a news conference in Ottawa.

The Russian planes were in international waters, about 118 miles (190 kilometers) northeast of Tuktoyuktuk, in Canada's Northwest Territories.

"It was a routine flight over international airspace," Yevgeniy Khorishko, a spokesman at the Russian Embassy in Washington, told CBC news.

NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, is a joint U.S.-Canadian agency in charge of aerospace control for the North American continent.

"As has been done on previous occasions, (Canadian pilots) sent very clear signals that are understood, that (the) aircraft was to turn around, turn tail and head back to its own air space, which it did," MacKay said.

The Russian planes were identified as TU-95 Bear aircraft by NORAD spokesman Michael

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americ...eref=rss_world
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any one hear more why this bomber even came near Canada? are they trying to start the cold war up!

like to know if any one heard more about this

[ShArP]

didn't hear nothing about it until you posted this up

[atholon]

Not a big deal.

[IcIshoot]

yeah, this has happened once or twice already in the past year.

[Steve]

^ yup RAF jest were scrambled a few times last year

[SilentTrigger]

They have a tendency to get into other countries airspace. To much Vodka?

During the 80ies US SR-71 quite a few times went into Swedish airspace and ware kindly escorted out. One time was less friendly when Swedish fighters intercepted and locked missiles to an SR-71 inside Swedish airspace. I guess you shoudn't make a habit of it hehe.

It's actually more comman then many think, even if Russia takes it to another level. Taking long distance bombers that are capable of carring nukes into other countries airspace. This was no big deal as they ware over international airpsace.

[atholon]

People are stupid to think that nuclear war is going to start with a missle. If drug lords can smuggle so many drugs into the country....any other country could smuggle in a nuke, detonate it and no one would know where it was from.