The U.S. military shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday afternoon, the Pentagon said, while China called the downing an overreaction. “On Wednesday, President Biden gave his authorization to take down the surveillance balloon as soon as the missi...
The US and China have had a prolonged period of diplomatic tensions in both offline and online world. Since 1949, both countries have had periods of cooperation, competition and tensions in issues related to military, technology, trade, climate change and views on governance (e.g., independence...
Retired Col. Steve Ganyard, an ABC News contributor, said the balloon looked to be a standard research vessel -- which would mean it was unpowered and drifted with the jet stream. A senior U.S. official, however, told ABC that the military balloon was specially designed, with a purposefu...
new hardware and technology with limited involvement from outside agencies. The spaceplane still needs to hitch a ride to space on a commercial rocket like the Atlas V or the Falcon 9, but once it’s separated from the booster, the remainder of the X-37B’s mission is a military affair...
The suspected Chinese spy balloon that flew over the US was able to gather intelligence from several sensitive American military sites, officials have said. China was able to steer the surveillance balloon so it could make multiple passes over some of the sites an...
US Will Require Hot Air Balloon Pilots to Pass Medical Exam More WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators are requiring pilots of hot air balloons carrying paying passengers to pass an annual medical exam, similar to the requirement for pilots of commercial planes and helicopters. The Fed...
The incident also underscores the need for better military-to-military communications. “Even more challenging because right now, on our side, on the let's say the [People’s Republic of China]—normally we would have communications with the [People’s Liberation Army Navy], their military. ...
South Korean army K-9 self-propelled howitzers take positions during the annual exercise in Paju, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, Tuesday, June 23, 2020. A South Korean activist said Tuesday hundreds of thousands of leaflets had been launched by balloon across the borde...
military personnel and material — that the military acquired two of the advanced missile defense systems from the Israel Ministry of Defense. The first system was delivered in September and the second one last weekend, according to israelnationalnews.com. Advertisement - story continues below It ...
had not been arming Ukraine’s military before May 2022 at all like it has in the eight months leading up to late January, which is when the survey of more than a thousand people was conducted. The good news for Kyiv: “Strong bipartisan support continues” among Americans, the survey’...