{"id":113251,"date":"2020-09-21T10:25:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T17:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/norad-conducting-air-defense-operations-in-response-to-russian-aircraft-sightings"},"modified":"2020-09-21T18:31:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T01:31:09","slug":"norad-conducting-air-defense-operations-in-response-to-russian-aircraft-sightings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/norad-conducting-air-defense-operations-in-response-to-russian-aircraft-sightings","title":{"rendered":"NORAD conducting air defense operations in response to Russian aircraft sightings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/logo.norad-conducting-air-defense-operations-in-response-to-russian-aircraft-sightings.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (KRDO) \u2013 The North American Aerospace Defense Command says it is conducting air defense operations between September 20 and 23 in response to <a href=\"https:\/\/krdo.com\/news\/2020\/09\/19\/norad-identifies-russian-aircraft-entering-the-alaskan-air-defense-identification-zone\/\">recent sightings of Russian aircraft.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Officials say they are doing the operations to \u201cdemonstrate NORAD\u2019s air capability, readiness and will to defend the United States and Canada from competitors who continue to test our defenses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The organization says Russian aircraft were identified Friday evening within 50 nautical miles of Alaska\u2019s Nunavik Island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (KRDO) \u2013 The North American Aerospace Defense Command says it is conducting air defense operations between September 20 and 23 in response to recent sightings of Russian aircraft. Officials say they are doing the operations to \u201cdemonstrate NORAD\u2019s air capability, readiness and will to defend the United States and Canada [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113267,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113251\/revisions\/113267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}