NORAD has sent U.S. Air Force F-16 fighters from Alaska to the Atlantic side of Canada, and plans to take aircraft and personnel on into Greenland, in an Arctic operation running Sept. 13-26. The Alaskan NORAD Region moved the F-16s from Eielson Air Force Base to Goose Bay, in Canada’s Newfoundland and Labrador province, for […]
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From September 13 to 26, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) conducted Operation ARCTIC VANGUARD. This exercise is intended to test the mobility of fighter aircraft in the far North. As part of this mission, U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jets were transferred from Eielson Air Force Base in […]