Vigilant Eagle II:
NORAD and the Russian air force will conduct their second cooperative Vigilant Eagle air defense exercise starting this Sunday, August 7th for three days.
As with the first-ever Vigilant Eagle held last August, the three-day exercise will focus on both sides cooperatively responding to a mock hijacked airliner traversing US and Russian airspace in Alaska and the Russian Far East.
US and Russian fighters will practice intercepting and shadowing the airliner over their territories and then handing off control of the airliner to the other side as the airliner approaches the other's airspace. Along with the fighters, airborne warning and control aircraft and tankers from both sides will participate, as will US, Canadian, and Russian personnel in military air operations centers at JB Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, and Khabarovsk, Russia.
We should see AWACS (including Russian A-50), HF and typical Intercepts and tankers in the tracks on VHF and UHF as well. Perhaps the NORAD Western and certainly Alaska Sector will be interesting...Check on Russian Air Force radio (HF) perhaps as well....
Thx
Bill
This Sunday-Wednesday be tuned!
Thx
Bill
NORAD and the Russian air force will conduct their second cooperative Vigilant Eagle air defense exercise starting this Sunday, August 7th for three days.
As with the first-ever Vigilant Eagle held last August, the three-day exercise will focus on both sides cooperatively responding to a mock hijacked airliner traversing US and Russian airspace in Alaska and the Russian Far East.
US and Russian fighters will practice intercepting and shadowing the airliner over their territories and then handing off control of the airliner to the other side as the airliner approaches the other's airspace. Along with the fighters, airborne warning and control aircraft and tankers from both sides will participate, as will US, Canadian, and Russian personnel in military air operations centers at JB Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, and Khabarovsk, Russia.
We should see AWACS (including Russian A-50), HF and typical Intercepts and tankers in the tracks on VHF and UHF as well. Perhaps the NORAD Western and certainly Alaska Sector will be interesting...Check on Russian Air Force radio (HF) perhaps as well....
Thx
Bill
This Sunday-Wednesday be tuned!
Thx
Bill
