that s the explanation. neil: not detected at all. okay, so they no, no, no, let me finish, neil. yeah, that s why they have no knowledge of it. because we didn t detect it. nobody was going to brief something that wasn t detected. but that is alarming, to me, it is more serious a problem, because i believe that china is not just trying to get information for military bases by surveilling them. they are trying to penetrate the united states with other kinds of vehicles and find out, where we are vulnerable, because we do not have sufficient radar coverage or sufficient satellite coverage, and likely that is in the south, southeast, and southwest, because our radar coverage and our satellite coverage is protecting us from ballistic missiles and nuclear bombers coming from russia and china, in the east, west, and north. so, this is a serious issue, and i believe this administration
global narrative that china has tried to portray. and one could argue an embarrassment for china and xi at home. colonel, as we heard, something that is troubling is that this is not the first time the balloons have been traveling through the united states. as we now know, in the trump administration they went undetected. the norad head and commander said he attributed it to the domain awareness gap. how worrisome is that. in it s very worrisome, because the key thing that really is in that word, domain awareness gap, is that we didn t see it or detect it. that fact is a key indicator that we have a lot to do in order to fill that gap. so, whether it s radar coverage, intelligence coverage, a combination of both of those, those are the kinds of things that actually need to be put together where you have a complete picture of the airspace
it is a good opportunity to test and it a signal to nato, to poland and other countries that they have this and to kind of keep their distance. reporter: experts say what makes the hypersonic missile so dangerous, it can fly at five times the speed of fast or greater and is more maneuverable in flight than missiles. it uses gps coordinates to hone in on a target. it can also be directed by a controller to specific targets and it can change course in the middle of its trajectory. it can follow the nap of the earth. it can go right down on the ground where basically it evades radar coverage. reporter: a senior u.s. defense official tells cnn, putin s deployment to hit that ammunition warehouse is a bit of a head scratcher. why would you need a hypersonic missile fired from not that far away to hit a building. lloyd austin also wondered that
more(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Nigerian Airspace Management Agency ( NAMA) has announced the death of one of its Air Traffic Controllers (ATCO), Mr Aniekan Effiong, while on duty . Mr Khalid Emele, NAMA spokesman, confirmed the sad news in a statement in Lagos . Emele said that Effiong died on duty at the approach radar control […]