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This was a NORAD exercise - it included Canada as well as the USA. I suggest that the text be reworded to give it less of an American bias.
What is the point, or meaning, of the statement that Skyshield was forgotten during the September 11 2001 grounding of airliners? 124.197.15.138 ( talk) 01:41, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
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Sky Shield I included an "attack" by eight Royal Air Force (RAF) Vulcan B.2 bombers.
This has to be an error as the first B2 was not delivered to the first B2 squadron until 23 December 1960. The narrative seems to be confusing Skyshield II with #1. As far as I can tell, there was no RAF participation in #1. Two Vulcan B1s from Goose Bay at 48000ft participated in Exercise Eyewasher in April 1959 to exercise the Eastern Air Defence Command. The comment about the Vulcan's low-level capability in this instance is irrelevant as low-level tactics were not introduced until 1963/64. XJ784 ( talk) 16:03, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
All official references I have seen from UK sources use 'Exercise Skyshield': eg RAF Nuclear Deterrent Forces p313, Wynn, HMSO, 1997 (an official history), and two National Archive files with search for skyshield. Certainly in UK parlance, Skyshields were exercises because they were simulations rather than 'for real'. Googling "skyshield" brings up more instances of 'Operation' by a large factor but I wonder if WP is perpetuating an old error. XJ784 ( talk) 16:59, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
"operations involved 6,000 sorties flown"... "the largest military aviation exercise ever held"
Bogus. Exercise Ardent in 1952 had 1,000 aircraft flying 7,500 sortees over a period of a week. It was both larger and much more intense than what this article describes. Maury Markowitz ( talk) 17:53, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
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This was a NORAD exercise - it included Canada as well as the USA. I suggest that the text be reworded to give it less of an American bias.
What is the point, or meaning, of the statement that Skyshield was forgotten during the September 11 2001 grounding of airliners? 124.197.15.138 ( talk) 01:41, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available
on the course page. Student editor(s):
ZPotts,
LandonSherwood.
Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT ( talk) 05:45, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
Sky Shield I included an "attack" by eight Royal Air Force (RAF) Vulcan B.2 bombers.
This has to be an error as the first B2 was not delivered to the first B2 squadron until 23 December 1960. The narrative seems to be confusing Skyshield II with #1. As far as I can tell, there was no RAF participation in #1. Two Vulcan B1s from Goose Bay at 48000ft participated in Exercise Eyewasher in April 1959 to exercise the Eastern Air Defence Command. The comment about the Vulcan's low-level capability in this instance is irrelevant as low-level tactics were not introduced until 1963/64. XJ784 ( talk) 16:03, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
All official references I have seen from UK sources use 'Exercise Skyshield': eg RAF Nuclear Deterrent Forces p313, Wynn, HMSO, 1997 (an official history), and two National Archive files with search for skyshield. Certainly in UK parlance, Skyshields were exercises because they were simulations rather than 'for real'. Googling "skyshield" brings up more instances of 'Operation' by a large factor but I wonder if WP is perpetuating an old error. XJ784 ( talk) 16:59, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
"operations involved 6,000 sorties flown"... "the largest military aviation exercise ever held"
Bogus. Exercise Ardent in 1952 had 1,000 aircraft flying 7,500 sortees over a period of a week. It was both larger and much more intense than what this article describes. Maury Markowitz ( talk) 17:53, 28 December 2018 (UTC)