The Canadian Press reports that Canadian CF-18 fighters supplemented USAF aircraft earlier this month by flying NORAD air defense patrols over the Alaskan coast during the first grounding of USAF’s F-15 fleet. (See above.) Those CF-18s have now returned to their home base in Bagotville. Quebec. An official with Canadian NORAD operations declined to go into numbers of aircraft or other specifics, saying, “We really don’t want to say very much in case they’re called on again.
A new Navy missile could fill a long-range air-to-air need for the U.S. Air Force’s fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-generation fighters. The Navy’s portfolio acquisition executive for munitions posted information on the AIM-424 Long Range Air-to-Air Missile online on Aug. 22, the same day it unveiled the project at the service’s…