let's bring in the map and talk about this. if a missile takes off and heads you have, blasting into the atmosphere and arcing over to attack, what happens with this satellite up above? >> well, i need to tell you, what that satellite does is it will immediately pick up the i.r. signature, the infrared signal, coming off the launcher. it will immediately tell systems on the ground, systems at sea and systems at air that are all integrated what the telemetry data is sau sying. >> this is nothing like an airplane coming in to bomb someone? >> no. this is technology we've practiced with and refined over the course of years. this stuff works. >> if we see it headed towards something that matters to us, what happens? >> what happens? u.s. resource, allied resource, we're going to take it out with a high-altd tuesday area defense