zone, and by that i mean, those patrol flights that fly around basically making sure that moammar gadhafi doesn t put any airplanes in the air, that the opposition doesn t get into the air, that there are no surface-to-air missiles being fired. that job. now, the u.s. hasn t been doing that. what they have been doing is going after a lot of moammar gadhafi s forces on the ground. ajdabiya, they hit just yesterday with a major air strike by some jets going after some of his tanks and heavy armor. and what we re hearing is that you might even see more of those attack-style aircraft come into play for the u.s. drones, special gun ships that can flip at low altitude at night. specifically designed to look for specific ground targets. all right. chris lawrence for us this morning. chris, we appreciate the update. a lot more information to come out on this. a lot of people, as you know, have been calling on the president to step up and say something, be a lot more clear
that nato has taken over the lead from the united states? t.j., it will look a lot like it has in the last 48 hours where the u.s. is no longer flying these patrol missions to make sure that no one is flying in the area or there are no surface-to-air missiles being fired. but you are going to see a continued u.s. presence. that s because there are some unique capabilities that really only the u.s. can really provide to this effort. take a look. we can kind of run down a few of them. the first is the global hawk. an unmanned plane that can stay in the air at high altitude for long periods of time. it gives surveillance over the area. also there s something called j-stars which allow the allies to get an idea of what armor is on the ground, tanks, things like that. finally there are these planes called growlers. those also will be used to sort of jam signals and jam some of the electronic communication