NORAD launches major Northern training exercise

Operation Spring Forward will take place in Goose Bay, Iqaluit, Inuvik and Yellowknife
CBC NewsPosted: Apr 03, 2014 11:27 AM CT



It may soon be possible to spot CF-18 Hornet fighter aircraft, CC-130T Hercules and CC-150T Polaris air-to-air refuelling aircraft in several northern cities.



The North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, has launched a two-week exercise that will take place across the North for the first two weeks in April.



“It's a carefully operational exercise that is planned and controlled to ensure that NORAD's rapid response is sharp and that the capabilities that we want to see are there,” says Captain Wright Eruebi, with the Canadian NORAD Region Headquarters in Winnipeg.



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