David Common
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Host & Correspondent for @CBCNews. Journalist with @cbcmarketplace. Traveller, Dad. Previously of New York & Paris.
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Joined January 2010
VIDEO: We got exclusive access to the tank firing range where Canada's soldiers are training Ukrainian frontline troops on western-donated Leopard 2 tanks.
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VIDEO: Canada’s largely unknown role training tens of thousands of Ukrainians on NATO tactics for years before Russia’s invasion.
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NEW detail on Yukon shootdown.- Canadian officials say CF-18's arrived AFTER US F-22 shot down the object in Canadian airspace.- Canadian jets were "very close", ready to take over operations.- Would not reveal Canadian armaments, but say sufficient to address the object.
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On YUKON device.- will make every effort to locate it, but no guarantee that we will.- on LAKE HURON effort, marine conditions not conducive now to recovery now.
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Meanwhile, LAKE HURON device.- Downed in US airspace.- Debris now in Canadian waters.- Canadian Coast Guard vessels deployed.
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Airborne objects update from Canada:.- RCMP leading recovery efforts in Yukon.- Area is vast, mountainous terrain.- Canadian military helicopters forward deployed to Whitehorse & Dawson City .- Weather is a significant challenge.- Could be in 3000 sq km area.
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Now the work of trying to find the debris, if possible. There is an E3B airborne surveillance aircraft in the area. It would fine tune where the object was, where it landed, and control the various military aircraft which responded.
NEW: According to Canadian senior government source with direct knowledge of the situation. -- U.S. forces have taken down another object, this time over Lake Huron.-- object was completely over U.S. airspace at the time .-- Canada had closed its airspace nearby as a precaution.
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What we know now: US Congressman says pilots have "decommissioned" object over Lake Huron. Response aircraft airborne now. Earlier, restricted airspace over Lake Michigan (just to the west) was reopened. Now, Canadian airspace restricted over portion of Lake Huron.
Another air defence operation over Canada, this time near Tobermory, Ontario. Airspace closed. Could be something or, like Montana yesterday, a radar blip and nothing more. @cbcnews
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Another air defence operation over Canada, this time near Tobermory, Ontario. Airspace closed. Could be something or, like Montana yesterday, a radar blip and nothing more. @cbcnews
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RT @Katie___Simpson: UPDATE: The FBI has been called to help with the search and recovery efforts of the object shot down over the Yukon.….
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To close the loop on this, @NORADCommand launched F15's after a radar anomaly, but they found nothing.
Given the trajectory of previous airborne objects, good likelihood this flew through Canadian airspace before crossing border. US F15's now look set to take it down over Montana. Doesn't mean @NORADCommand didn't detect earlier, just didn't interdict until now.
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Montana object not a thing, after all. At least, not a thing that F15's could find.
Statement from NORAD & U.S. Northern Command
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Given the trajectory of previous airborne objects, good likelihood this flew through Canadian airspace before crossing border. US F15's now look set to take it down over Montana. Doesn't mean @NORADCommand didn't detect earlier, just didn't interdict until now.
DEVELOPING: "National Defense Airspace" NOTAM has been issued near Havre, Montana.
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What happens to object shot down over Canada? Surveillance aircraft has active ping of wreckage site, will direct Canadian Forces and RCMP to retrieve whatever is left after a 40,000' fall. National Security folks will assess its capabilities and likely origin country.
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To answer inevitable questions on Canada shootdown:.- Canada and US jets typically both armed with Sidewinder missiles.- Takedown altitude was 40,000', well within service ceiling for both CF18 and F22.
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Big takeaway on Canada shootdown:.- Canada DefMin believes first time NORAD has shot anything down in Canadian airspace. Ever.
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Object cylindrical in shape.- smaller than object shot down off North Carolina.- all fighter jets were under Canadian controllers.- F22 fired AIM-9 Sidewinder missile.- Canada DefMin @AnitaAnandMP says first jet with best shot was designated to take it.
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NEW details on Canada shootdown: .- Takedown occurred at 3:41pm ET.- Over central Yukon at 40,000 feet.- Wreckage site being monitored by Canadian CP-140 surveillance aircraft.- F22's launched from Elmendorf AFB in Alaska.- CF18's from Cold Lake, Alberta.
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RT @Alex_Panetta: The White House readout of a Biden-Trudeau call regarding a U.S. fighter jet shooting down an object in Canadian airspace….
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Shootdown geography time. Object was over Yukon. US has F-22 jets based in Anchorage. Canada has CF-18's in Cold Lake, Alberta (red pin). @NORADCommand scrambled both aircraft types, ordering first there to take action.
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