🇺🇸 📃 ✈️ NORAD Air Defense Exercise Over Water

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NORTH AMERICAN AEROSPACE DEFENSE COMMAND

Feb. 15, 2023

NORAD AIR DEFENSE EXERCISE OVER WATER, NORTH OF KEY WEST AND WEST OF EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado – North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) will conduct a planned, live-fly air defense exercise over water, north of Key

West and west of Everglades National Park today.

NORAD fighter aircraft will operate over the area at low altitude and may be visible to the general public.

This exercise is in no way related to recent NORAD and U.S. Northern Command operations associated with airborne objects over North America during the last two

weeks.

To test responses, systems and equipment, NORAD routinely conducts air defense exercises using a variety of scenarios, including airspace restriction violations, hijackings and responding to unknown aircraft. All NORAD exercises are carefully planned and closely controlled.

The defense of Canada and the United States is NORAD’s top priority and we are on alert 24/7/365. This air defense exercise supports Operation NOBLE EAGLE, the name given to air sovereignty and air defense missions in North America. For 60 years.

NORAD aircraft have identified and intercepted potential air threats to North America in the execution of its aerospace warning and aerospace control missions

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Retrieved From: NORAD

Transcribed By:

Logan Thompson