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211020-F-IY848-1002.PNG Photo By: NORAD Public Affairs

Oct 20, 2021
PETERSON SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. - AEROSPACE CONTROL NORAD ensures U.S. and Canadian aerospace control, to include air defense operations, through a network of alert fighters, tankers, airborne early warning aircraft, rotary wing air interceptors, and ground-based air defense assets cued by interagency and defense radars. By using this network of sensors, NORAD detects airborne objects approaching North America and conducts its air defense mission by tracking, identifying, and taking appropriate action. Appropriate action may include, but is not limited to, monitoring the track, scrambling fighters to intercept and identify the approaching aircraft, and/or escorting it through the air defense identification zone (ADIZ).


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