Either our guys really don’t know what it was or they know and are not telling. Either way, ignorance or subterfuge it’s of great concern, IMHO.
What if it’s trajectory had been toward the West Coast and not out toward open sea? Are they telling us a missile this size could be successfully launched on 35 miles from our shores and we wouldn’t know what hit us had it come out way?
For my money that’s simply inexcusable. Has our national defense slipped to the point that a ship capable of firing a missile clearly visible from 35 miles away could get into that area without being detected and identified.
I am hoping there is a better explanation forthcoming.
Would probably be a good idea at this point...
It's been a very long time since "Defense Spending" was exclusively for defending CONUS. How the hell else could a subsonic plane hit the Pentagon with 45 minutes' notice? For the most part we have been protecting "American interests" overseas, OTKA "investors."
There was an Admiral on Fox News earlier who said there is no way this thing could have caused much damage because the payload was obviously not big on it. Downplaying it saying he was putting his money on a private industry launch.
What a load of crap. What private industry would risk everything to do such a stupid stunt other than a state sponsored group or Al Qaeda?