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I'd still rather have Canadian fighter jets deal with stuff in Canada. I know two planes doesn't make an invasion, but I don't want the USA getting too comfortable with flying in when they feel like it.
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Seriously. Can our own jets not handle a Cessna?
Can you not understand what NORAD is?
Isn't NORAD a joint defense organization between the US and Canada?
The article says jets from the US and Canada both responded and the US jets from NORAD were stood down once they new the plane had landed.
Yes. Im angsty about the Americans but joint interceptions have been happening since WW2 between us.
This is nothing out of the usual but Trumps posture certainly should have us rethinking this. We already know this line of thought of relying on America has met its rhetorical end of the road.
Some CBC readers have raised concerns that Canada wouldn't have been able to take action against it had the balloon been a threat.
Not an issue, according to Bercuson. He says one of the main points of NORAD is that Canadian and U.S. military aircraft need not seek permission every time they need to fly over each other's territory.
"So once the decision was made that this thing would be shot down," he said, "if we didn't have the capability of doing it, the Americans would do it."
The sole occupant, huh? So he hijacked it from himself?
Edit: another source says he threatened a flight instructor, which I imagine was on the ground before he took off with the plane.
I assume it could also mean hijacked from its planned course?
If you take control of it while it's on the ground it's just called a jacking
Well what the hell is a lojack then.
That's a rabbit with antlers