NORAD visually identifies 2 Russian bombers near Northwest Territories

NORAD.mil ^ | February 27, 2009 | N/A

[Monkey Face]

Ooohyah!
“Gruesome” would be a better word. But I’ll be ready.
My ancestors and descendents would be ashamed if I didn’t do my share of fighting.

[fanfan]

Thank you for your reply.

Our jets scramble over each others borders eveyday.

Thats pretty cool, eh?

[VR-21]

A better description of the ADIZ is that it’s a specified zone around the country on aviation charts where identification is required upon entering.

[Zeppo]

Question: (Inaudible) was there any link (inaudible). The Russians cannot not have been aware that the President was coming. Hon. Peter MacKay: No, clearly it was a well-kept secret that President Obama was coming to Canada. It’s difficult to say whether this was a coincidence or it was an effort on the part of the Russians to simply perhaps be up to some mischief or cause a bit of a diversion.

How can anybody trust the Obama regime, peopled by America-haters everywhere you look, to keep anything secret from America's enemies?

[SandRat]

Military doing their Jobs quickly, efficiently, and professionally -— HOO-UH!

The Political Government agencies/elements are a different story.

[fanfan]

I agree, I hate bureaucrats, but that was our defense minister speaking. :-)

Apparently, we are finally starting to stand up for ourselves. Again.

HOO-UH! is Right!

After 30 years of liberalism here, I am loving this!

[Tennessee_Bob]

And despite the props and rust, it can still carry a warload. Old Bears still have claws.

[SandRat]

[pepperdog]

Yeah, but Kennedy was a veteran and had served in the Armed Forces of the United States. This guy has never served in any military organization (that we know of), his stated area of expertise is “community organizing”. Can you imagine how the Soviets are LTAO at our “commander and chief” the community organizer! If the doofuses in this country who voted for this joker had any idea of just what jeopardy they have placed this country in they would be very afraid, but they slumber peacefully in their stupidity and they dream of free health care, free child care, and finally getting even with the rich people and the big corporations. Lord have mercy on us!

[Spirochete]

[Clive]

From the press conference quoted by Cindy:

Gen Gene Renuart (USAF):
Minister, I’ll just follow up just very quickly on your comment and I apologize for not making the comment in my opening remarks but it should not be — it was not lost on the citizens of our country and should not be lost on the citizens of Canada that the last medical patients that we evacuated out of New Orleans prior to Hurricane Gustav making landfall left on a Canadian C-17 and we have a wonderful picture that was taken of an elderly woman in very poor health giving a big hug to a Canadian aeromedical evacuation technician on your C-17 as she was being evacuated out of harm’s way. And that is a great depiction of the partnership that we have — that we have built not just in the NORAD world but in the area of assistance during disasters and we were really proud to have that support.

Gen. Walter Natynczyk (Canadian Forces):
Can I just say that that is part again of the civilian assistance plan that Canada Command on my behalf working with NORAD, NORTHCOM has put together that plan. And I am reminded that when we had the ice storm in this area that it was U.S. aircraft that flew up to Edmonton, C-17s, picked up the brigade of soldiers, flew them down to Montreal to assist in that area. So this really does go both ways.

[Clive]

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[FormerACLUmember]

And despite the props and rust, it can still carry a warload. Old Bears still have claws.

True. A cruise missle platform does not need to be pretty.

[SandRat]

[AntiKev]

We have our own ADIZ up North.

[buccaneer81]

Bravo to the Canadian Forces! And please, we need more Rick Hilliers.

[GOPJ]

But I’m not going to stand here and accuse the Russians of having deliberately done this during the presidential visit but it was a strong coincidence which we met with a presence, as we always do, of F-18 fighter planes and very — world class pilots that know their business and send a strong signal that they should back off and stay out of our airspace.

Isn't this pretty common?

[hedgetrimmer]

Someone is testing Obama.

[Clive]

GOPJ wrote: "Isn't this pretty common?"

Yes, with a caveat. Soviet (later Russian) probes with automatic NORAD responses have been routine for more than half a century. There had been in decrease in frequency of incidents after the Soviet empire broke up but there has been a recent ramping up of Russian probes.

From the press conference quoted by Cindy in Reply 2:

Gen. Gene Renuart: Just very quickly, the minister hits it exactly right. We have seen increased activity on the part of the Russians. They have been professional in the way they have conducted their aircraft operations but I think it’s prudent for both countries to continue to maintain that solid, integrated air defence posture that we have to ensure that any aircraft that approaches our airspace that is not on a flight plan, that is unidentified, whose intentions we’re not sure of is identified and allow us to gage whether there is a real threat or not and we continue to do that on a routine basis. You may know a little while ago Canadian fighters actually helped the United States when our F-18s were grounded for a period of time because of an aircraft accident. So we work this relationship transparently back and forth to ensure that the airspace around both of our countries is maintained sovereign as it should be.

[free_life]

190 kilometers northeast of Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories is in Canadian territorial airspace.

And it is Tuktoyaktuk not Tuktoyuktuk.