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To: long-gone who wrote (40446)	9/19/1999 2:13:00 AM
From: Zardoz	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 116759

<<interesting but off topic >> Or is it? dailynews.yahoo.com Russia 'Surprised' At U.S. Intercept Of Bombers MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's armed forces expressed ''surprise and regret'' Saturday that U.S. jets had intercepted two Russian bombers off Alaska, and said the American planes should not have done so in international air space. U.S. officials said Friday the jets had turned back the bombers after the Russian aircraft approached the Alaska coastline this week for the first time in six years. A Russian defense ministry spokesman said: ''The air force expresses surprise and regret at the interception of the Tu-95MS aircraft, which were carrying out planned flights on the route Ukrainka-Anadyr-Ukrainka. ''The aircraft were in neutral air space and the American fighters should not have intercepted them.'' Ukrainka and Anadyr are both in the Russian Far East. Anadyr is on the far northeastern tip of Russia, opposite Alaska. The Russian spokesman did not give the precise location of the bombers at the time of the incident. U.S. officials conceded that the Russian bombers, known to NATO as the Bear H, had stayed in international air space but said they had entered an ''outer defense identification zone,'' about 200 miles (320 km) off the coast of Alaska. A spokesman at the North American Aerospace Defense Command Regional Air Operations Center at Elmendorf Air Force Base said their entry into the identification zone triggered the dispatch of U.S. jet fighters to positively identify the aircraft. The U.S. F-15s came within 90 miles (140 km) of the Russian aircraft before the Bear bombers turned away. The last intercept of a Russian Bear aircraft near Alaskan airspace occurred in March 1993. Russia's Interfax news agency quoted an air force spokesman as saying similar training flights had been going on for a week. The spokesman was quoted as saying that the Russian air force regularly tracked NATO reconnaissance aircraft flying along the borders of Russia but did not intercept them. Comment: That's the ONLY Bear that you need to fear.