OPINION: Flying intruder threat from China is scary, but Biden won't talk about it
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"We don’t have attribution," Kirby said Monday at the White House. Those are dismaying words. No wonder President Biden hasn’t appeared in person. Instead, an interagency study team led by National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan will look at last weekend’s intruders, plus scads of other unidentified aerial phenomenon, and determine policy responses. The potential threat to U.S. national security from leaky air defenses is serious.
Remember NORAD was set up in 1958 to track Soviet bombers or intercontinental ballistic missiles. Bombers and missiles are hot, metallic, fast-moving objects. Since North American air defenses were not designed for leisurely, drifting balloons and other objects, let’s get Gen. VanHerck and his command what they need to improve their tracking. ."Slow-moving objects with small radar cross-sections are hard to detect," Kirby said.
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