During my time we were looking to upgrade those systems so we could see further, deeper, lower in some cases. clearly this is showing some weakness in our ability to surveil the horizon, what s coming our way. the sooner you can learn what s happen, the quicker you can detect it, make a decision. either phone the capital, certainly scramble jets to investigate it and get eyes on it. clearly there needs to be improvement at this point given this new vector that we re discovering. yeah, i think that s the point. we know of all the aircraft that are out there, right? and the faa knows that, supposedly. but we don t know of objects until they hit our shores or our airspace? that seems rather limited in terms of what we see on the horizon. well, this gets back to the issue about understanding your airspace, protecting your sovereignty is you want to know everything and anything that s ....