The commander of an Air Force airborne air control squadron on Okinawa has been relieved after an investigation into the unit’s command climate, an Air Force spokesman said.
couple weeks. john: air defense identification zone, not actually in u.s. air space. it was a rush bear, su-35 stealth aircraft, fifth generation, upgrade of the se-27. f-16s went up, a couple of f-35s as well, a tanker and awacs aircraft. they fly in the identification zone, don t actually penetrate u.s. air space, i don t want to say they are chased away by the american planes, but the american planes are put up there to say don t come any further and then they turn around and go back. there s plenty of video of that happening in the past but it is interesting the same whether we have so many things flying over the united states that we are shooting down, the russians would choose now to do this. sandra: alaskan region of the north american aerospace defense command where those were detected.
launching alert aircraft to be able to respond. now those alert aircraft will go. and alongside of awacs or airborne early warning systems that have very long radars and associated tankers, we would inspect those objects or what we would call targets of interest. once an identification is made, you heard the canadian minister of national defense saying on the device that was shot down in the uconn, that they wanted to establish visual identification which is why they waited for daylight. twh once that identification is done, that is important to delineate exactly what you re dealing with. is this a civilian aircraft? is this a military aircraft? what is it? up until that point in time, it s only a radar contact. it s at that point in time that norad headquarters in colorado springs will describe those elements to the national
time, so in the middle of the night, he brought together the chairman of the joint chiefs, the head of north common norad, he called them all together and said let s figure out what this thing is doing and where it could be heading and whether action needs to be taken. when they discussed the possible courses of action to take, one of those included taking it out. and it got to the point where on wednesday norad actually brought in aircraft, including an awacs to try to surveil this craft, this balloon, and also f-22s, which have very advanced surveillance capabilities but also have the ability to take this out if that was decided. ultimately the military leaders decided that if they were to bring this thing down, in a kinetic way, it could potentially leave a large debris field on the ground, putting civilians and infrastructure in danger. that he decided that was not going to be their recommendation. they took that recommendation to president biden on wednesday, he concurred. so at t