Too Close? US Air Force Bomber Gets Russian Fighter Jet Escort

On Sunday September 26^th Russian state news agency TASS reported that a US Air Force plane, a US B-52H bomber was found to be near Russian airspace and was quickly escorted out by  “three Russian fighters Sukhoi-35S” jets through routine procedures without incident.

“The fighters’ crews identified the target as a strategic B-52H bomber of the US Air Force and escorted it over the Pacific Ocean. There were no violations of Russia’s state border or dangerous proximity of planes in the air,” TASS stated.