up military activity so much lately that he s got to bring in barbara starr from the pentagon right now. that s a pretty dire warning. reporter: it is. i9 caught a lot of attention. so what s admiral gortney really talking about here? he s trying to tell people the russians are developing a new, long-range cruise missile. what does that mean? it means they have in development and potentially ready to go a missile they could fire from 2,000, 3,000 miles away, low-flying, very precise. and the issue is if they really deploy this kind of missile technology, they could hold the u.s. and europe at riggs. have a listen to what he had to say about this just yesterday. the long-range aviation by
concern that they are also engaging in intelligence gathering, to see how admiral gortney s fighter jets respond. let s talk more about this with former nato supreme allied commander general wesley clark, author of don t wait for the next war. a retired four star general. sir, thank you for being here. this seems like a pretty dire warning from the admiral. russian missiles in range of the u.s. kh-101s. if they go operational, what then? could that spark a new arms race of some sort? well they will go operational. there s no doubt about that. and yes, there is an arms race that s coming. we just have to face the fact that russia is coming back. under vladimir putin as president obama said he s got a foot firmly in the soviet past. all these bomber patrols are part of putin s strategy. he wants to rebuild the soviet
grabs and the fact that nato allies have had to scramble jets more than 400 times to intercept russian military flights, just last year 400 times. they are not just buzzing around in the air space of our european allies apparently. the admiral testified that russian planes had been flying more missions closer to north american air space than at any time since russia was the ussr. the pentagon clearly concerned. just yesterday the u.s. asked vietnam to stop letting russian military planes refuel in that country. let s get right to barbara starr live at the pentagon. barbara, a lot of concerns here but this new missile seems to be the chief concern of norad. reporter: it is right now. i have to tell you, admiral gortney is far from alone on this. several top commanders sounding the alarm of their worry that russia is re-arming up for a new cold war. defending against vladimir putin s russian military