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Say this but we have a live shot now of this balloon going down. this balloon has been taken down. it is now falling from the sky there over surfside beach, south carolina so your reaction to this sir? >> yes i am watching it. first of all, well done. congrats to the military for being able to do that. obviously tracking this thing is no problem in bringing it down with the united states military is not much of a problem either. it's still a major coordination effort to do it. hopefully we will cover the sensor package on this as well but we have a pretty good feel they know with the wind curr...

About people. the defense officials i've spoken with about this have reinforced it's not a threat to commercial aviation at its altitude and doesn't pose a threat to people on the ground when it's flying around. again, if that situation changes while they're watching it, i think that's when we might see some sort of change in action here. >> general, what's your read on this? >> well, it's a strange, uncoordinated action by the chinese. they have been getting increasingly aggressive, harassing our own intelligence collection platforms seen in the air. this thing was hardly covert. for god sake...

Holes in it with a 50cal and it comes down slowly. i don't expect it would explode if you did that, i mean, it would if you hit it with the missile and everything would come down at 32 feet per second squared, but is there a way to slowly deflate it? >> look, they just should knock it down. in montana, nine people per square mile. i mean, there's not a lot -- a lot of space out there, and when that was coming earlier, make the decision where and when to do it. if you knock it down, look at the sensor package, and this is thing -- it's not collecting and holding it, it's transmitting informatio...

It can -- with its sensor package, it can see out, if you will, about 20,000 square miles. so from eastern ukraine, depending on its route, which is classified, it could have had a very close look at what the russian positions were and what was going on. every expectation there will be more of these flights. the russians are well aware of u.s. capabilities in this kind of thing. they know that the u.s. is looking at them, looking at those 100,000 forces, seeing where they are, trying to assess their movements, trying to aesz their readiness. but what is interesting is vladimir putin has made i...

They're called sonobuoys. >> they're a sensor package out of the aircraft. will deploy a hydro dols phone. >> once it hits the water surface it has saltd water switches that starts activating different deployments. everything in this canister starts to unwind. there's a bunch of gear in there that is packed in nicely. there's a radio antenna that talks to the aircraft so the buoy and the aircraft are constantly in communication. microphone is listening for signals on a very long string and they deploy below the canister. >> reporter: the australians got this batch from american manufacturers, ...