Sentence examples for scramble fighter from inspiring English sources

Commanders at the North American Aerospace Defense Command, set up to defend against Soviet attacks, prepared to scramble fighter jets to shoot down the runaway drone.

China could use the completed installations to "scramble fighter jets to intercept, tail and attempt to evict incoming military aircraft," Xie noted.

The launch came a day before a Chinese marine surveillance plane crossed into what Japan considers its airspace around the islands, causing Japan to scramble fighter jets for the first time in the dispute.

Syrian government forces bombed rebel positions in the frontier town of Ras al-Ain on Monday, killing at least 12 people according to opposition activists, and prompting Turkey to scramble fighter jets along the border.

Gen. Pavel V. Androsov, the commander of long-range aviation, boasted that the sortie prompted the United States to scramble fighter jets that flew so close to the Russians that the pilots "smiled at each other and then peacefully went their separate ways".

The United States, Japan and South Korea have sent military aircraft into China's proclaimed airspace without notification, which has prompted China to scramble fighter jets to identify the unannounced entrants, officials in Beijing have confirmed.

"Do you know if anyone down there has done any coordination to scramble fighter-type airplanes?" the manager asked, continuing: "We have several situations going, going on here, it is escalating big, big time, and we need to get the military involved with us".

Then, in December, a patrol plane buzzed the islands; Japan scrambled fighter planes.

When a Chinese military surveillance plane overflew the islands two weeks ago, Japan scrambled fighter jets in response.

The controllers notified several federal agencies, including the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or Norad, which scrambled fighter planes.

In that case, the Royal Air Force confirmed that it had scrambled fighter jets in response.