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NORAD ‘Domain Awareness Gap’ May Feature Relatively Low-Tech Balloons

NORAD ‘Domain Awareness Gap’ May Feature Relatively Low-Tech Balloons
Radar systems at Thule Air Base, Greenland, scan the skies for foreign military rockets and missiles on Sept. 9, 2017. Operation Blue Jay first established Thule Air Base in 1951. Thule Air Base, Greenland, is the Department of Defense's northern most installation and hosts several radar sites. Thule is now Pituffik Space Base (U.S. Air Force Photo)

This week, U.S. Air Force General Glen VanHerck, the commander of U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), spoke of a "domain awareness gap" in saying that the U.S. had failed to detect previous Chinese spy balloons. Published reports have indicated that the four previous Chinese balloons--one early in the Biden administration and three during the Trump administration--had overflown Guam and the states of Hawaii, Texas, and Florida. While NORAD said that it detected the most…

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