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.
The Air Force wants to spend more than a half billion dollars through 2031 on a new protection system designed for cargo and refueling aircraft that features onboard sensors and weapons to track and take down enemy missiles and drones.