American and Canadian fighter aircraft intercepted two nuclear-capable bombers off the US coast.
The Pentagon has said that the Russian and Chinese bombers that flew near Alaska on Wednesday was the first time the two countries have been seen operating together in that manner.In a press conference on Thursday, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that the Russian and Chinese aircrafts' movements were 'not a surprise.
'But again, it's the first time that we've seen these two countries fly together like that,' he added.Austin said that the aircraft did not enter U.S. airspace and were about 200 miles off the coast.'If it happens again, if there is any kind of a challenge from any direction, I have every confidence that NORTHCOM and NORAD will be at the ready and will be able to intercept,' he said.
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