By Rick Leventhal published September 07, 2011| FoxNews.com
The F-15 fighters rolling until the end of the runway at the Base of the Air National Guard of Barnes. With the permission of the control tower they quickly accelerate and in a few seconds are cruise gently just 20 feet above the road.
Then, with the authorization for an unlimited rise "fast", pilot Thom "Coq" Kelly point the nose of the Jet straight up and climbs to 15 000 feet in a matter of seconds before stabilizing, first head down, then slowly turn the glass cockpit to the sky.
Col. Kelly and his "Wing man" (they usually fly in pairs) are demonstrating the capabilities of the device in an exercise of interception operation Noble Eagle, an effort by the Government of the United States to protect our skies of airborne threats.
The program was reinforced after 9/11, with hundreds of pilots in 18 bases across the country dedicated to defending America. Many Airmen have the experience of combat in Iraq, the Afghanistan or Kosovo, and say that they are honoured to put their skills to use here at home.
Major Jeffery Blake, Commander of edge with the 104th wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, said: "it gives me a great amount of pride knowing that my country has asked me to sit on the point and to go over there... and find targets that could potentially be threats and make sure that they are not going to hurt someone.".
September 2, operation Noble Eagle is called to action when an unidentified airplane entered airspace restricted near Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland. F-15 was scrambled and minutes were escorting civilian Piper aircraft at an airstrip guaranteed in West Virginia.
The jets are armed with a Gatling gun with hundreds of rounds of ammunition and air - air missiles. Kelly, said if given the order, it will pull the trigger, as was done in the areas of war overseas.
"We are only minutes from New York and Boston in the Charivari, well within our fight for the Noble Eagle missions", he said. And weapons? "Weapons are more than enough to perform the task which would be at hand for the defence of the homeland."
Noble Eagle pilots intercepted an incalculable number of aircraft in the last ten years, but until now did not have to pull the trigger in American airspace. Colonel Robert Brooks, Commander of the 104, said it is a good thing.
"Well, it was not something like means 9/11 and that things work and this is what we want.". "We are like the type of your last line of defence, therefore if we do not do things, which means that the other components, intergovernmental organizations, are working together to prevent another 9/11-type scenario".
Operation Noble Eagle is on alert, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year in the sky above you.
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