Canada and the United States are eyeing the sky with suspicion these days — as well as the shared continental defence system that's supposed to be watching it for them.
In this photo provided by Chad Fish, the remnants of a large balloon drift above the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of South Carolina, with a fighter jet and its contrail seen below it, Feb. 4, 2023. Canada and the United States are eyeing the sky with suspicion these days — as well as the shared continental defence system that’s supposed to be watching it for them.
Jaffer says it’s unclear if the challenges posed by the recent flurry of overhead encounters represent a lack of capability, a lack of attention or a combination of both. “That alone, I think, bespeaks something of a collection, ingestion or analytic gap — or all three,” Jaffer said in an interview. But neither Austin nor Anand have said much publicly about how those efforts are going, when they might be complete or whether a more modern Norad would be better equipped to detect unmanned, slow-moving, high-altitude interlopers.
“There’s almost no question in my mind that we’re going to need to develop new capabilities — and whether those capabilities are to deal with an old threat or a less modern threat or a more modern threat, it’s hard to know,” he said.Sign up for our newsletter to get breaking news and daily digests sent to your email.“There’s no doubt that we need to really do a retrospective and figure out what’s going on here.
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