Games Without Frontiers: Another Russian Spy Plane Near Alaska
By Ward Clark | 6:15 PM on August 27, 2025
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The Russian Ilyushin Il-20M, NATO code-named "COOT-A," is a Soviet-era, four-engine turboprop, long-range patrol plane, designed to carry out reconnaissance and electronic-intelligence (ELINT) gathering missions. If you were a Russian commander and looking for information as to what the United States was up to around and off the Alaskan coast, this is just the airplane you'd send to trail its coat down the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) to see how the Americans react.
That's just what the Russians did on Tuesday.
U.S. military fighter jets were scrambled on Tuesday to track a Russian spy plane detected flying near Alaska, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said.
It was the fourth time in less than a week that the military command has detected and tracked a Russian IL-20 COOT, a Cold War-era reconnaissance aircraft, in the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), a stretch of international airspace that requires the ready identification of all aircraft in the interest of national security, according to NORAD.
The same type of Russian aircraft flew over the region on Aug. 20, Aug. 21 and Aug. 24, the military command said.
In each of the four instances, NORAD responded with its own fighter jets to track the spy plane.
It was the fourth time in less than a week that the military command has detected and tracked a Russian IL-20 COOT, a Cold War-era reconnaissance aircraft, in the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), a stretch of international airspace that requires the ready identification of all aircraft in the interest of national security, according to NORAD.
The same type of Russian aircraft flew over the region on Aug. 20, Aug. 21 and Aug. 24, the military command said.
In each of the four instances, NORAD responded with its own fighter jets to track the spy plane.
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