Russian Su-35 jets scramble to intercept US strategic bomber
BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:40 A.M.) – The Russian National Defense Monitoring Center announced on Friday, that three Russian Su-35 fighters intercepted a U.S. strategic bomber over the waters of the Sea of Okhotsk in the western Pacific.
The statement read: “Three Sukhoi (35S) fighters of the Air Defense Forces of the Eastern Military Region took off alternately, in order to intercept the aircraft.”
The statement said that Russian combat aircraft “have identified the aircraft as an American-made B-1B bomber belonging to the U.S.