“Air and maritime intercepts happen all the time. Heck, we do it,” Kirby told reporters at Monday’s White House briefing. “The difference is, when we do it, when we feel like we need to do it, it’s ...

Infuriated at suffering yet another public embarrassment, China has slammed the Pentagon’s publication of photos showing its dangerous interceptions of U.S. military aircraft. On Tuesday, the Pentagon ...

Japan said its fighter jets were scrambled on 31 occasions in May to head off suspected airspace violations by Chinese military aircraft, three more than the previous month. In the month of May, Japan ...

Japan's air intercepts of mostly Chinese and Russian military aircraft more than tripled last month as the quasi-allies ramped up springtime maneuvers in the region, according to Japanese Defense ...

Air Force fighter jets intercepted a civilian aircraft flying in the temporarily restricted airspace near Donald Trump's Florida home Sunday, bringing the number of violations to more than 20 since ...

These intercepts also illustrate the convergence of the legacy air combat platforms with the emerging mission of counter-unmanned aerial systems (C-UAS). Where ground-based air defences employ layered ...

NORAD scrambled U.S. Air Force F-16s to intercept Russian Il-20 surveillance aircraft three times in the Alaskan ADIZ in less than one week. The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) ...