{"id":1845670,"date":"2023-02-13T17:50:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T22:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1845670"},"modified":"2023-02-13T17:50:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T22:50:32","slug":"norad-schedules-midnight-routine-air-defense-drills-over-washington-d-c-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/norad-schedules-midnight-routine-air-defense-drills-over-washington-d-c-area\/","title":{"rendered":"NORAD Schedules Midnight Routine Air Defense Drills Over Washington D.C. Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnorad-schedules-midnight-routine-air-defense-drills-over-washington-d-c-area%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1845670&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>U.S. officials stated Sunday that routine air defence drills in the Washington D.C. region are scheduled for the late hours of the week.<\/p>\n<p>Officials from North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), stated in a news release, that on February 14th, between midnight and 2:30 a.m. EST, in the National Capital Region, there will be a live-fly, air defense Falcon Virgo flight, which was the official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.norad.mil\/Newsroom\/Fact-Sheets\/Article-View\/Article\/2928004\/exercise-falcon-virgo\/\">Website<\/a> Described as an operation to intercept and identify airspace security incidents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Defense of North America is NORAD\u2019s top priority, and NORAD remains on alert around the clock, every day,\u201d Lt. General Kirk Pierce said. \u201cIt is an honor to serve our citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NORAD made the announcement amid national security concerns. This comes after U.S. officials shot four objects above North America this month.<\/p>\n<p>Aircraft participating in Tuesday morning\u2019s exercise include U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jets, U.S. Coast Guard MH-65D Dolphin helicopter, U.S. Army C-12 aircraft, and Civil Air Patrol Cessna 182T general aviation aircraft, the release noted.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the exercises could see aircraft flying at about 2,500 feet. Residents in the area can witness this.<\/p>\n<p>Officials from NORAD created Falcon Virgo in response to the terrorist attacks. This is a plan to defend North America against airspace threats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNORAD routinely conducts exercises with various scenarios, including airspace restriction violations, hijackings, and responses to unknown aircraft,\u201d The release says. \u201cAll NORAD exercises are carefully planned and closely controlled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Similar routine exercises were conducted by the defense organization in Washington, D.C. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.norad.mil\/Newsroom\/Press-Releases\/Article\/2469155\/norad-air-defense-exercise-planned-for-national-capital-region\/\">January 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. officials announced Sunday that routine air defense drills over the Washington D.C. area are expected to happen during the midnight hours this week. North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) officials said in a news release that on February 14, between midnight and 2:30 a.m. EST in the National Capital Region, a live-fly air defense &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1845673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6229,10924,3998,15852,16416,18381,12093,18303,4086],"class_list":["post-1845670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-air","tag-d-c","tag-defense","tag-drills","tag-midnight","tag-norad","tag-routine","tag-schedules","tag-washington"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1845670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1845673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}