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Air Force fighters scramble from Alaska to intercept Russian bombers

By Chris Klint, Alaska Dispatch News April 18, 2017

Two Anchorage-based fighter jets intercepted a pair of Russian bombers Monday night off Kodiak Island in what an Air Force commander called the first such flight seen near Alaska in nearly two years.

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