“At no point in time were they deemed to pose a threat. “What I would say is that NORAD and NORTHCOM monitored their presence. “I’ll let the Chinese and the Russians characterize their activities,” Pentagon press secretary Brig. Navy P-8 maritime surveillance aircraft was also used to monitor the joint Russian-Chinese patrol, according to officials. official had told ABC News that the Pentagon was tracking and expecting this patrol for several weeks, since well before the exercise began The Russian Defense Ministry said that the joint patrol had already covered 2,300 nautical miles in a transit that had taken the Russian and Chinese Navy ships to “the southwestern part of the Bering Sea,” where they had practiced “joint tactical maneuvering, conducted communications training and carried out helicopter landings and take-offs from the decks of each other’s ships.”Ī U.S. Video posted by Russia’s Defense Ministry on Saturday showed what appeared to be at least nine vessels sailing in formation and the firing of weapons into the ocean, presumably as part of what it described as an anti-submarine exercise. One of the officials told ABC News that the Russian and Chinese vessels operated in different locations and were not always in the same formation. The patrol marked an apparent show of military unity and strength between the two countries. officials declined to provide details on how close the Russian and Chinese ships got to American territory. territorial waters, which stretch out 12 miles from the Alaskan coastline. officials said.īoth officials stressed that the 11 Russian and Chinese ships remained in international waters and did not sail into U.S. Navy destroyers operating in the Pacific Ocean had monitored the ships’ movements from various distances, one of the U.S. In response to the ships’ movements near the island chain, four U.S.
to deploy warships and aircraft to monitor the formation - are now moving away from the region, according to two American officials. (WASHINGTON) - The nearly dozen Russian and Chinese ships that sailed near Alaska’s Aleutian Islands last week as part of a joint exercise - leading the U.S.
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