China, Russia send 11 military vessels near Alaska, U.S. responds with 4 Navy destroyers 01:32. The U.S. military has moved about 130 soldiers along with mobile rocket launchers to a desolate ...

Dan Sullivan, Alaska’s junior Republican U.S. senator, said that while there may be little threat of a Russian invasion of Alaska, there is concern about Russia’s military buildup in the region.

China, Russia send 11 military vessels near Alaska, U.S. responds with 4 Navy destroyers 01:32. Four Russian military planes were detected and tracked off the coast of Alaska, the North American ...

Eleven military vessels from China and Russia found operating near the Aleutian Islands last week were met by four U.S. Navy destroyers, Alaska’s two U.S. senators said.

The U.S. military is steadily boosting its presence near Alaska, deploying a destroyer and an Army unit armed with a long-range missile system as tensions rise due to stepped-up Russian and ...

Russia has escalated its provocative encounters in the North Pacific this year, harassing boats in U.S. fishing waters and sending bombers toward Alaska’s shores.

Russia, and NATO states like the U.S., have conducted military exercises in the Arctic over the past few months. Update 9/24/2024, 4:00 a.m. ET: This article was updated with additional information.

A Tupolev Tu-160M strategic bomber takes off from Kazan, Russia, in February, 2024. Four Russian military aircraft were detected in the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone on Thursday.

The drills, named Umka-2022, took place in the Chukchi Sea, an eastern stretch of the Arctic Ocean that separates Russia from the U.S. state of Alaska. Sign up here.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says that Russian and Chinese bombers flying together for the first time in international airspace off the coast of Alaska is a new show of expanding military ...

Russia-China military drills – a brief history While the two countries have ramped up such exercises in recent years, joint drills date back to 2003, when a multilateral exercise took place in ...

The U.S. military on Monday released video of what it said was an unsafe maneuver by a Russian fighter jet near Alaska during an intercept by the U.S. military last week.