CNN The Nineties June 4, 2024 06:11:00
About 27,500 kilometers per hour, moving very fast. which means its dwell time, its ability to be over a particular target, is very short. the balloon is at 60,000 feet drifting with the wind. so it can actually spend a long time over a particular region. and with signals intelligence and electronic intelligence, sigent and elent, it's about scooping up emissions, transmissions, everything that could be happening electronically in the air around those sensitive u.s. military sites, including significant numbers of nuclear missile icbm silos. so this is an important area for the u.s. military. ...
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