Russian Fighter Jet Nearly Sideswipes American Aircraft in ‘Unsafe, Unprofessional’ Maneuver

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This video was recently captured on September 23rd. And this is the moment an American F-16 fighter which was under order of North American Aerospace Defense Command was nearly sideswiped by a Russian warplane. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.

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00:00This video was recently captured on September 23rd and this is the moment an American F-16 fighter,

00:06which was under the order of the North American Aerospace Defense Command or NORAD,

00:10was nearly sideswiped by a Russian warplane. The US fighter was on what has been described

00:15as a routine intercept mission of a Russian Tu-95 aircraft. The Russian nuclear capable

00:20bomber was flying in the Alaskan ADIZ or Air Defense Identification Zone. That area is tightly

00:26monitored for foreign aircraft, as it is just off the coast of Alaska over international waters

00:31that border Russian territory. However, during that intercept mission, a Russian Su-35,

00:36which was escorting the bomber, conducted this unsafe maneuver. The move has now been condemned

00:41by NORAD, saying that while their intercepted the bomber and the ADIZ was disciplined,

00:46Russia's aircraft response was not. With General Gregory Gio, NORAD commander, saying about it,

00:51quote, the conduct of one Russian Su-35 was unsafe, unprofessional, and endangered all.

00:56Not what you'd see in a professional air force. In response, the US deployed

01:01personnel with mobile rocket launchers to a nearby island for a week as a deterrent.

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