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are Canada’s air forces non existent?
by option 4y ago
are Canada’s air forces non existent?
- Waterluvian 4y agoThe article answers the question pretty early on: both air forces scrambled fighters. NORAD is NORAD. They collaborate very closely and it becomes kind of moot who specifically does what.
- lom 4y agoIn the article it said both forces scrambled to down it, but it seems like the americans just got luckier.
- Yoric 4y agoAccording to the article, they were also dispatched. I guess the US air forces received order to shoot earlier?
- capableweb 4y agoSecond paragraph: > Both Canadian and US aircraft were scrambled to track down the object which Trudeau says was taken out by a US F-22. So clearly not.
- berkut 4y agoTheir F-18s can't fly as high (without doing zoom climbs) as the F-22 (which has very large control surfaces which help with this).
- Rebelgecko 4y agoDoes the plane have to be at the same altitude to launch the missiles?
- thrill 4y agoNo. It's useful if you want to eyeball the target first though.
- arecurrence 4y agoIt was shot down in the Yukon, jets from Alaska were likely the closest to the target.
- version_five 4y agoCanada contributes to North American air defence and it's F-18s (to become F-35s) fly norad missions. Americans also contribute, and obviosuly have more fighters. The article says both countries dispatched planes, the americans ended up shooting it down. It was over the Yukon which is very close to Alaska so not surprising both were present. It would have been a bit odd if it was over saskatoon or something
- kzrdude 4y agoCompare with UK and Ireland, where Ireland indeed has a non existant air force and UK a right to defend.