Russia s increasing military flights around Alaska are a strain on our units, top US commander says insider@insider.com (Christopher Woody)
Numerous US officials have said that Russian military flights around Alaska have increased.
Responding to them strains Air Force units in Alaska, the top commander there said Wednesday.
But they still do it in a timely, professional manner and with style, Air Force Lt. Gen. David Krumm said.
Russian military flights around Alaska are taxing the US units that respond to them, but they are handling the strain well, the top US commander in Alaska said Wednesday.
Air Force Lt. Gen. David Krumm, head of Alaskan Command, is the latest US military official to warn about those flights, which have increased significantly.
Then-Defense Undersecretary Frank Kendall, left, the military s chief weapons buyer, and Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James, right, testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016, on Russian-made rockets for military satellites. Two senior Republicans say they don’t want American tax dollars used to buy any more Russian rocket engines because the sales enrich the friends of Russian President Vladimir Putin. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18s and USAF F-15s conduct a NORAD patrol over the Beaufort Sea during an exercise in August 2020. (Photo: NORAD)
The Canadian government is allocating funding for the next five years to overhaul NORAD amid new-generation threats such as low-flying cruise missiles and hypersonic weapons.
Canada is committing federal funds to modernise North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) in the face of a renewed Russian assertiveness.
The federal budget, announced on 19 April, includes C$163 million ($131.4 million) over a five-year period from 2021-2022 to overhaul the ageing NORAD strategic missile warning system, which was set up in the 1950s.