they re trying to track, they will filter out and drop anything that is moving outside of a given range of speeds. so this is why military radars, for example, are able to, most of the time, disregard things like clutter from the ground, reflections from trees and reflections from birds, clouds, depending on the frequency of the radar because those objects are moving relatively slowly or stationary, and so the radar will simply filter them out. the wider you make those kind of velocity gates in terms of what the radar is looking at and what it s disregarding, the more clutter you ll have to deal with, and so the better processing you ll require in order to get usable results for military purposes. what s happened since the chinese spy balloon incident in the us is that the us appear to have reprogrammed a lot of their surveillance radars for air defence purposes with much, much wider velocity gates. so they re suddenly seeing a lot of sort of floating objects, of which there are many
but in order to not get endless false returns if you re looking for something like aircraft or missiles, which would be the normal military things that they re trying to track, they will filter out and drop anything that is moving outside of a given range of speeds. so this is why military radars, for example, are able to, most of the time, disregard things like clutter from the ground, reflections from trees and reflections from birds, clouds, depending on the frequency of the radar because those objects are moving relatively slowly or stationary, and so the radar will simply filter them out. the wider you make those kind of velocity gates in terms of what the radar is looking at and what it s disregarding, the more clutter you ll have to deal with, and so the better processing you ll require in order to get usable results for military purposes. what s happened since the chinese spy balloon incident in the us is that the us appear to have reprogrammed a lot of their surveillance rad
is that the us appear to have reprogrammed a lot of their surveillance radars for air defence purposes with much, much wider velocity gates. so they re suddenly seeing a lot of sort of floating objects, of which there are many that are not spy balloons. you know, weather balloons, research balloons, just hobbyists putting cameras up on high altitude balloons. but theyjust weren t seeing those before. and so now, having opened up the velocity gate, they re now having to try and classify and potentially intercept a lot more things that theyjust we ren t noticing before. make no mistake, if any object presents a threat to the safety| and security of the american people, i will take it down. well, i think we need to focus on the real issue here, which is the impact all of this has had on an already fragile and fraught us china relationship. i mean, the united states has long had this sense of inviolability. they haven t had to fight on their own territory since the end of the us civil wa
will simply filter them out. the wider you make those kind of velocity gates in terms of what the radar is looking at and what it s disregarding, the more clutter you ll have to deal with, and so the better processing you ll require in order to get usable results for military purposes. what s happened since the chinese spy balloon incident in the us is that the us appear to have reprogrammed a lot of their surveillance radars for air defence purposes with much, much wider velocity gates. so they re suddenly seeing a lot of sort of floating objects, of which there are many that are not spy balloons. you know, weather balloons, research balloons, just hobbyists putting cameras up on high altitude balloons. but theyjust weren t seeing those before. and so now, having opened up the velocity gate, they re now having to try and classify and potentially intercept a lot more things that theyjust we ren t noticing before. make no mistake, if any object
reprogrammed a lot of their surveillance radars for air defence purposes with much, much wider velocity gates. so they re suddenly seeing a lot of sort of floating objects, of which there are many that are not spy balloons. you know, weather balloons, research balloons, just hobbyists putting cameras up on high altitude balloons. but theyjust weren t seeing those before. and so now, having opened up the velocity gate, they re now having to try and classify and potentially intercept a lot more things that theyjust we ren t noticing before. make no mistake, if any object presents a threat to the safetyj and security of the american people, i will take it down. well, i think we need to focus on the real issue here, which is the impact all of this has had on an already fragile and fraught us china relationship. i mean, the united states has long had this sense of inviolability.