WASHINGTON, September 30 (Itar-Tass) -- Jets of the US and Canadian Air Force have practiced "intercepting” heavy bombers of the long range Russian Air Force that were conducting regular exercises off the Alaska coast.
WASHINGTON–The annual defense spending bill for the coming year will put tens of millions of dollars into upgrades of Air Force and Army training grounds in Alaska, as well as into communications systems and several new facilities on military bases.
The Russian air force held a massive exercise that involved strategic bombers flying across the North Pole and approaching Alaska, the Aleutian Islands and Japan, a top general said today.
A study links smoke from Alaska wildfires with pollution in Houston, Texas. Valparaiso University physics professor Gary Morris led an air quality study using weather balloons in the summer of 2004, when very high levels of ozone were detected in the skies over Houston.
U.S. and Canadian fighter aircraft intercepted Russian planes off the Alaska coast, but it was not considered a hostile incident, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said on Friday.
North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado Springs dispatched fighter jets late Thursday after Russian bombers were detected on an exercise off Alaska, NORAD disclosed today.
Alaska Airlines says that it will save $500,000 a year in fuel costs after switching to lighter beverage carts. Alaska's new carts are 20 pounds lighter than its previous models, and –- with 2,500 carts in its flight –- that...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin ( Nachrichten ) 's second AN/TPS-77 radar for the U.S. Air Force's Pacific Alaska Range Complex (PARC) passed its Site Acceptance Test (SAT) and was deployed to improve safety and surveillance at the nation's largest contiguous supersonic training area.
