{"id":136917,"date":"2024-10-05T17:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/su-35-crosses-f-16-off-alaska-how-many-times-has-norad-caught-russian-planes-coming-too-close-this-year\/"},"modified":"2024-10-05T17:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T07:00:12","slug":"su-35-crosses-f-16-off-alaska-how-many-times-has-norad-caught-russian-planes-coming-too-close-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=136917","title":{"rendered":"Su-35 Crosses F-16 Off Alaska: How Many Times Has NORAD Caught Russian Planes Coming Too Close This Year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NORADCommand\/status\/1840776113846468898\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >posted a video<\/a> of an intercept of a pair of Russian Tu-95MS Bear-Hs and their Su-35 escorts as they flew off the coast of Alaska. The video shows a Russian             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"652028\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Su-35 Flanker-E<\/span><\/span> flying a very close &#8220;headbutting&#8221; maneuver, forcing the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> F-16C to avoid the Russian aircraft&#8217;s jetwash. While         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2029707\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/norad-f-35s-escort-2-planes-restricted-airspace-rnc-convention\/\" >NORAD intercepts in the area are common<\/a><\/span>, the video is remarkable for just how much of a close encounter it was. But how common are these sorts of intercepts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian Su-35 performed an unsafe &#8216;headbutt&#8217; maneuver as Russia steps up flights in the Arctic in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,397,625,11736,412,8087],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-f-16","category-intercept","category-military","category-su-35-super-flanker"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136918,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136917\/revisions\/136918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}