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| Russia, NORAD shadow jet in Pacific |
| Russia, NORAD shadow jet in Pacific hijack drill
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 9-August-2010
6:34:8 AM |
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A chartered jet with American, Russian and Canadian military officers aboard played the role of a hijacked plane in an unprecedented drill Monday as pursuing fighter planes flew close enough to see pilots' helmets silhouetted against the blue sky.
Flying east across the Pacific starting Sunday from Anchorage, Alaska, the Gulfstream jet - code-named Fencing 1220 - was shadowed first by U.S. F-22s and later by Russian Su-27 and MiG-31 fighters in the first joint exercise of its kind among the former Cold War adversaries.
"To see those Russian fighters pull up right on time, to hear the Russians (talking on the radio), it's just incredible," said U.S. Army Maj. Michael Humphreys, a NORAD spokesman and the senior American officer on the jet.
The Russian Air Force representative taking part, Col. Alexander Vasiliev, knew the day would come when the two sides would work in concert, but "never thought it would be him sitting on the aircraft," his translator said. Vasiliev declined to be quoted directly, saying he would leave that to an official Russian spokesman at a news conference planned later in the week.
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