Domain Awareness Gap
Armstrong & Getty On Demand
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4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Hour 3 of A&G features military analyst Mike Lyons with his expanded thoughts on the Chinese Spy Balloon debacle. Plus, KJP stumbles very, very badly. There's Madonna backlash, SOTU criticism and the creators of a cartoon picks at our scabs.
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| 0:00.0 | From the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack |
| 0:15.2 | Armstrong and Joe Gettie. |
| 0:17.2 | The Armstrong and Gettie show. |
| 0:20.9 | The high altitude surveillance airship was launched from mainland China on January 21st. |
| 0:26.8 | It crossed into Alaska on January 28th. |
| 0:29.7 | US defense officials say it spent minutes, not hours, over US territorial waters, near |
| 0:34.8 | the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, and then crossed into Canada. |
| 0:39.0 | On Tuesday, January 31st, the balloon entered the Continental US above Idaho. |
| 0:44.5 | The next day, President Biden gave the order to shoot it down when safe to do so, after |
| 0:49.5 | being briefed by his national security team. |
| 0:52.1 | General Van Herk said the balloon was 200 feet tall, carrying 1 to 2,000 pounds of equipment |
| 0:57.7 | and possible explosives designed to self-detainate the balloon. |
| 1:01.5 | A ton of equipment, a little more of the nuts and bolts from Martha Radich on ABC News |
| 1:05.8 | here. |
| 1:06.8 | Officials insist the US will gather valuable information from the debris already revealing |
| 1:12.2 | new details. |
| 1:13.7 | The balloon had propellers, they say, and a rudder. |
| 1:17.6 | The balloon had the ability to maneuver itself, to speed up, to slow down, and to turn. |
| 1:24.2 | propellers in a rudder. |
| 1:25.2 | I'm Kirby is a smart guy, but I don't think the balloon was maneuvering itself. |
| 1:31.4 | So this story broke on Friday. |
| 1:33.0 | We had Mike Lines on and asked him should they shoot it down? |
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