Two Tu-95s, strategic bombers carrying cruise missiles, and two Su-35s, fighter jets with multi-role weapons considered Russia’s best fighter jet, were tracked in the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone on Wednesday. The Alaskan ADIZ starts where the U.S. and Canada's "airspace ends and is a defined stretch of international airspace that requires the ready identification of all aircraft in the interest of national security," NORAD says.

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