Military aircraft to arrive in Greenland for 'long-planned' activities: U.S.-Canadian command

North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) craft volition soon get astatine a U.S. subject basal successful Greenland for "long-planned" activities, the organisation said connected Monday (January 19, 2026).

The announcement from NORAD, a associated U.S.-Canada subject organisation for aerospace monitoring and defence, came amid rising tensions implicit President Donald Trump's request for U.S. control of the autonomous Danish territory.

The connection did not picture the quality of the planned activities astatine Pituffik Space Base, which it said were aimed astatine "defence cooperation."

It said that the activities had been coordinated with Denmark and that Greenland had been informed.

NORAD said that the arriving craft volition run alongside those from bases successful the continental United States and Canada.

"They volition enactment assorted long-planned NORAD activities, gathering connected the enduring defence practice betwixt the United States and Canada, arsenic good arsenic the Kingdom of Denmark," NORAD said.

The connection added that NORAD "routinely conducts sustained, dispersed operations successful the defence of North America."

Mr. Trump has stoked anxiousness among U.S. transatlantic allies with threats to instrumentality implicit Greenland "one mode oregon the other."

Over the weekend, the U.S. President threatened to wield caller tariffs against countries which reason his plans for the Arctic island, aft respective European nations sent tiny subject delegations determination for an exercise, to which the United States was besides invited.

Denmark has projected that NATO commencement surveillance operations successful Greenland to face information concerns.