{"id":14278,"date":"2014-05-06T05:51:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T05:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/russian-fighter-jets-rake-near-california\/"},"modified":"2014-05-06T05:50:16","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T05:50:16","slug":"russian-fighter-jets-rake-near-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/russian-fighter-jets-rake-near-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Fighter Jets Rake Near California"},"content":{"rendered":"
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{{ The head of U.S. air forces in the Pacific said on Monday that Russia’s intervention in Ukraine had been accompanied by a significant increase in Russian air activity in the Asia-Pacific region in a show of strength and to gather intelligence.<\/p>\n

General Herbert “Hawk” Carlisle said the activity had included Russian flights to the coast of California, and around the U.S. Pacific island of Guam.<\/p>\n

Carlisle said the number of long-range Russian patrols around the Japanese islands and Korea had increased “drastically.” He said there had also been “a lot more ship activity as well.”}}<\/p>\n

Speaking at Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank, Carlisle showed a slide of a U.S. F-15 fighter jet intercepting a Russian “Bear” aircraft over Guam. He used the Cold War NATO name for Russia’s Tupolov Tu-95 strategic bomber.<\/p>\n

“Certainly what’s going on in Ukraine and Crimea is a challenge for us and it’s a challenge for us in Asia Pacific as well as Europe,” Carlisle said.<\/p>\n

He said there had been “a significant” increase in Russian activity in the Asia Pacific “and we relate a lot of that to what’s going on in the Ukraine.”<\/p>\n

“They’ve come with their long-range aviation out to the coast of California, they’ve circumnavigated Guam,” he said.<\/p>\n

“That’s to demonstrate their capability to do it, it’s to gather intel,” Carlisle said, adding that the surveillance had included observation of military exercises involving U.S. forces in South Korea and Japan.<\/p>\n

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