CF-18 fighter jets & USAF F-16 on guard during Exercise Amalgam Dart - Canada
2300:00 - U.S. Air Force Airmen from the Colorado Air National Guard 140th Wing perform a foreign object debris walk.
00:33 - U.S. Air Force Airmen from the 140th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron tow F-16 at Canadian Forces Base Goose Bay.
01:18 - Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 fighter aircraft taxi after landing at Canadian Forces Base Goose Bay during exercise.
01:47 - Colorado Air National Guard F-16 Fighting Falcons land at Canadian Forces Base Goose Bay during exercise.
03:19 - Colorado Air National Guard F-16 Fighting Falcons and Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 fighter aircraft park at Canadian Forces Base Goose Bay during exercise Amalgam Dart 21-2, March 21, 2021.
03:41 - U.S. Air Force Airmen from the 140th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron load munitions at Canadian Forces Base Goose Bay during exercise Amalgam Dart 21-2, March 21, 2021.
The exercise will run from March 20-26 and range from the Beaufort Sea to Thule, Greenland and extend south down the Eastern Atlantic to the U.S. coast of Maine.
A bi-national Canadian and American command, NORAD employs network space-based, aerial and ground based sensors, air-to-air refueling tankers, and fighter aircraft controlled by a sophisticated command and control network to deter, detect and defend against aerial threats that originate outside or within North American airspace.
Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 fighter aircraft, CC-130 search and rescue and tactical aircraft, and a CC-150T air refueler; as well as U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter aircraft, KC-10 Extender refueler, KC-146 Pegasus, KC-135 Stratotanker, as well as C-130 and C-17 transport aircraft will participate in the exercise.
NL, CANADA
03.21.2021
Video credit - 2nd Lt. Benjamin Kimball
North American Aerospace Defense Command