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[fourthhorseman]

NORAD Exercise Planned for East Coast, New England

NORAD Exercise Planned for East Coast, New England


readMedia Newswire
October 15, 2009

The Continental United States NORAD Region, a geographical component of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, will conduct a three-day homeland defense exercise, Falcon Dart, beginning Oct. 14 along the eastern seaboard and in New England.

This exercise is designed to train CONRs intercept and identification operations and will involve fighters out of Barnes Air National Guard Base, Mass., Jacksonville ANG, Fla., Homestead Air Reserve Base, Fla., and aircraft from other federal agencies.

Residents may hear aircraft noise and see aircraft flying at various times throughout the day.

* A d v e r t i s e m e n t
* us news NORAD Exercise Planned for East Coast, New England

Air Force B-52 Stratofortresses will simulate tracks of interest during the first day of the exercise. The Eastern Air Defense Sector, based in Rome, N.Y., will direct Air Force F-15 Eagles to intercept the B-52s along the eastern seaboard.

readMedia NewswireF-15s from the Florida Air National Guards 125th Fighter Wing based in Jacksonville and the Massachusetts Air National Guards 104th FW based at Barnes ANGB will be launched to intercept the B-52s.

On days two and three of the exercise, Air Force C-21s (military version of the Lear Jet 35A business jet) and Civil Air Patrol fixed-wing aircraft will simulate tracks of interest in the Ashland, N. H., area. F-15s from Barnes ANGB, along with fixed and rotary-wing aircraft from U.S. Customs and Border Protection will be launched to intercept the TOIs.

CONR, along with its Eastern and Western Air Defense Sectors, provides airspace surveillance and control and directs all air sovereignty activities over the continental United States.

NORAD has conducted exercise flights of this nature throughout the U.S. and Canada since the start of Operation Noble Eagle, the commands response to the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

As the Continental United States geographical component of the bi-national command NORAD, CONR provides airspace surveillance and control and directs air sovereignty activities for the CONUS Region. CONR and its assigned Air Force forces throughout the country ensure air safety and security against potential air threats.

Since Sept. 11, 2001, CONR fighters have responded to more than 2,300 possible air threats in the United States and have flown more than 54,000 sorties with the support of Airborne Warning and Control System and air-to-air-refueling aircraft

[N1BHH]

This has already been posted here: Sticky Thread For MilAir IV

[BMT]

I hate to be a spoil sport but the exercise was probably already started when this was posted.
The first day in FL the 159thFS/125thFW were the player's along with "CHILL-52" B-52 and one AWACS.

Yesterday the A/C were from Homestead ARB.

So my guess today's A/C were from Barnes.

BMT

[kennyblues]

Originally Posted by N1BHH

This has already been posted here: Sticky Thread For MilAir IV

Also check here;
NORAD Exercise planned - Scan New England Forums

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[fourthhorseman]

my apologies for the dubl post,,i got all excited when i peeped the article and
wanted to get the info out asap.

i do wish i still lived in boston,,seems a lil tough to get any mil-air here in philly...
but then again,it could be user error,,for having a giant FBI Fld office,i dont get
alot of action from them either..lol...can you say,,noooo-beeee...