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Carrier in a combat situation. there have been fears to conk before it got in theater. well, today, a website called ukraine today made some headlines today posting this article. russian aircraft carrier towed in mediterranean. and we have not misspelled mediterranean. that's the way it appears in the article. satellite photos showed the ship stopped moving, says the carrier is being towed to a russian support point and then there's a satellite photo and does seem to show it being towed by another vessel. don't believe it. don't believe it. this is fascinating. we reached out to the u.s. naval...

Filling the grounds are rogue weapons, some captured, some purchased, some acquired by mean the dia won't reveal. so to help train pilots and other war fighter who might come into contact with a weapons system like this in a combat situation, they keep these systems operational. this is still a fully functioning scud missile. proliferation of missile technology preoccupies analysts here more than any other threat. >> we have greater concerns about the smaller missile threats and the likelihood of the proliferation of those. >> reporter: small only in size, but not in capability. okay, this is ...

But certainly there's going to be needed training involved. >> reporter: director of the missile and space intelligence center, a branch of the military's own intelligence operation, the defense intelligence agency, or dia, located far from the battlefields of iraq and afghanistan in huntsville, alabama, the home of america's own rocket program. filling the agency's grounds are a rogue's gallery of dangerous foreign weapons, some captures, some purchased, some acquired by means the dia won't reveal. so to help train pilots and other war fighters who might come into contact with a weapons syste...

Will have in the counter isil. >> you don't deny i will not be a part of this strategy on that. >> the only quote you read to me is a direct question on what we were prepared to do to insure our concerns about the ah sawed regime and need for regime change were9helk implemented. and the president said we will not implement a military strategy to takedown bashar assad. we want to build a capacity of local forces to make sure they can be focused on isil and that's the strategy that the president is focused on. and when the president talked about a combat situation, the president is clear. he doe...

To track incoming aircraft, and incoming unidentified aircraft, and missiles in a combat situation. we have seen over the years the kinds of aerostats smaller in places like iraq and afghanistan, and successful of providing the surveillance over a wide area, but this system in particular can fly about 10,000 feet over sea level. right now, we are told that it is drifting at 16,000 feet. it is going to remain to be seen what the u.s. military can do to get control of this thing. are they going to let it drift and lose the helium in some fashion and float to the ground or take the action to disa...