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To go along with this, Canada had 310 flights with 3,000 passengers affected, and 31 foreign flights scheduled to land in North America were canceled. commercial flights carrying around 37,000 passengers, and 700 general aviation aircraft were affected by this exercise. In late July 1960, the Department of Defense gave airlines an eight-week notice that it would mobilize an unprecedented number of combat aircraft in a training exercise so vast that it could succeed only if civil aircraft did not interfere and that the airlines should adjust their schedules accordingly and notify their reservation holders.
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It was among the largest military aviation exercises ever held. The operations involved 6,000 sorties flown by aircraft of the United States Air Force, British Royal Air Force (RAF) and Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), simulating Soviet fighter and bomber attacks against New York, Chicago, San Diego, Los Angeles, Washington and more. The tests were intended to ensure that any attacks over the American–Canadian border or coastlines would be detected and then stopped.
Shield in the sky ivipid series#
Operation Sky Shield, sometimes known as Exercise Skyshield, was a series of three large-scale military exercises conducted in the United States in 1960, 1961, and 1962 by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and the Strategic Air Command (SAC) to test defenses against an air attack from the Soviet Union. For the 19 simulated attacks against Project Nike defenses, see Arlington Heights Army Installation and Martin AN/FSG-1.