Air Force Magazine

A B-1B Lancer will play the bad guy and try to penetrate U.S. airspace in a large force exercise that will bring together assets and players from four combatant commands, as well as North American Aerospace Defense Command and the Navy’s Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, U.S. Northern Command announced May 29.

The command did not release a date for the air defense exercise, but said it’s “a first of its kind” aimed at demonstrating U.S. and Canadian capabilities. NORAD CF-18s and F-15s will conduct air intercepts alongside the strike group’s F/A-18s. The fighters will be refueled along the East Coast by Operation Noble Eagle alert KC-135 Stratotankers provided by U.S. Transportation Command.

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