{"id":104847,"date":"2024-08-09T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T21:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-us-combat-air-patrols-maintain-airspace-security\/"},"modified":"2024-08-09T07:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T21:00:11","slug":"how-do-us-combat-air-patrols-maintain-airspace-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=104847","title":{"rendered":"How Do US Combat Air Patrols Maintain Airspace Security?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    The United States routinely operates combat patrols to maintain security. These patrols include establishing a defensive zone to prevent enemy aircraft from penetrating friendly airspace. While some aircraft, like <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/boeing-p-8-poseidon-weapons-guide\/\">the P-8 Poseidon, are used for maritime patrol<\/a>, others, like the F-22 and F-35, are used for combat patrol and interception. For example, <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/norad-tracked-2-chinese-h-6-2-russian-tu-95-bombers-alaska\/\">NORAD recently tracked two Russian and two Chinese bomber aircraft<\/a> on a joint patrol in the North American US Air Defense Identification Zone.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Combat air patrols protect the US from threats outside and inside its airspace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1258,396,570,412,11735,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-aircraft","category-guide","category-military","category-norad","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104848,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104847\/revisions\/104848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}