Our jets scramble over each others borders eveyday.
Thats pretty cool, eh?
Posted on 02/28/2009 3:29:53 PM PST by Cindy
Note: The followint text is a quote:
NORAD visually identifies 2 Russian bombers near Northwest Territories
February 27, 2008
North American Aerospace Defense Command launched fighter aircraft Feb. 18 and visually identified two Russian TU-95 Bear bomber aircraft approximately 190 kilometers northeast of Tuktoyuktuk, Northwest Territories. This response included two CF-18 Hornet fighter aircraft from 4 Wing Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada as well as two F-15 Eagle aircraft from the Alaskan NORAD Region. The Russian aircraft remained in international airspace at all times and never entered sovereign Canadian or American airspace.
All aircraft involved in the visual identification returned to base without incident.
This was a professional response by Canadian and American NORAD pilots and operators. It highlights the close, working relationship Canada and the United States have maintained through NORAD for over 50 years.
NORAD will respond to any unidentified aircraft approaching North American airspace. Russian flights, just like any other, will be visually identified in accordance with standard procedures. NORAD carefully monitors all air activities in the North and considers all options to ensure fulfillment of our air sovereignty responsibility to Canada and the United States.
NORAD uses an identification process that is well established and proven to be very effective. If an aircraft approaches North America, NORAD will detect the object by radar. NORAD will attempt to identify the object through a variety of mechanisms including correlation with flight plans, communication and transponder interrogation. If these methods fail, NORAD may launch aircraft to visually identify the unknown object and assess its intentions.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is a bi-national United States and Canadian organization charged with the missions of aerospace warning and aerospace control for North America. Aerospace warning includes the monitoring of man-made objects in space, and the detection, validation, and warning of attack against North America whether by aircraft, missiles, or space vehicles, through mutual support arrangements with other commands. Aerospace control includes ensuring air sovereignty and air defense of the airspace of Canada and the United States. The May 2006 NORAD Agreement renewal added a maritime warning mission, which entails a shared awareness and understanding of the activities conducted in U.S. and Canadian maritime approaches, maritime areas and inland waterways.
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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.
Our jets scramble over each others borders eveyday.
Thats pretty cool, eh?
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.
How can anybody trust the Obama regime, peopled by America-haters everywhere you look, to keep anything secret from America's enemies?
Military doing their Jobs quickly, efficiently, and professionally -— HOO-UH!
The Political Government agencies/elements are a different story.
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!
And despite the props and rust, it can still carry a warload. Old Bears still have claws.
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.
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True. A cruise missle platform does not need to be pretty.
We have our own ADIZ up North.
Bravo to the Canadian Forces! And please, we need more Rick Hilliers.
Isn't this pretty common?
Someone is testing Obama.
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.
190 kilometers northeast of Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories is in Canadian territorial airspace.
And it is Tuktoyaktuk not Tuktoyuktuk.
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