Photographs of F-16C Viper fighter jets assigned to the U.S. Air Force’s 18th Aggressor Squadron at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska armed Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles, or AMRAAMs.
The Air Force has confirmed that aggressor F-16s were used to intercept two Russian Tu 95MS bombers after those aircraft entered the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone earlier this week.
The crews of those Bears may well have been confused to see jets sporting elaborate camouflage, and Russian-style red bort numbers pull alongside them.
F-22 Raptor stealth fighters from Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson in Alaska, which has established alert facilities, supported by E3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft and KC-135 tankers, to intercept foreign military aircraft entering the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ).
The F-16s that intercepted the Russian Tu-95 Bear-H bombers on Monday was assigned to the 18th Aggressor Squadron. The F-22s that usually fly alert missions are in Europe now, which is why the aggressor jets are now on alert.
“The employment of the F-16s in support of the Alaskan NORAD Region mission demonstrates the diversification of aircraft capable of doing so and allows for a resilient and flexible force with personnel capable and familiar with operating in Arctic conditions,” Air Force Maj. Ott had said, as a general comment, in her statement.
“Simultaneously, it ensures readily available airpower capabilities to support other requirements in the NORAD and NORTHCOM Joint Operations Area as well as in the INDO PACIFIC.”
James 1:1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
James 1:2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
Luke 21:9 But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.
Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and diseases; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Luke 21:25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
Luke 21:28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
Revelations 11:18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
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