I'm John Bachelor, Gordon Chang, at Gordon G. Chang with me, and we're very pleased to be joined

by General Blaine Holt, the United States Air Force retired. The downing of U.S. aircraft in combat

more than 30 days after the start of the conflict. Question how and why. Why is to make an incident,

of course. However, the how is much more critical.

Gordon, my understanding is that there are two choices.

The Iranians say they use the third Cordad missile system, which is their name for some air defense that we had not seen before this incident over Iran.

The other possibility is passive infrared detection system.

This is suggestive, Gordon, of being supplied from outside,

the fact that we didn't see it at the 35th day.

Is that your reasoning, Gordon?

That is certainly my reasoning. If the United States can't

detect passive radar, it just does not admit signals, and so therefore it is extremely hard to find.

Now, the issue is if they had this passive radar in the beginning of the war on February 28th,

they would have shot down planes from the very

beginning of the conflict. The fact that they waited until the 35th day suggests that, at least

in my mind, that China or Russia supplied this radar in the middle of the conflict. This is

speculation, but the question is, if I'm not right, then how did this happen

so late in the war, the 35th day? General, your number is called, please help us. What is a

passive infrared detection system, and why can't we track it? Good evening to you. Good evening. Yeah, so the Chinese

have been working on this for a really long time as a counter to our stealth technology, and they

have other technologies in play too, which is airborne acoustics and this type of thing. They haven't

really been successful, potentially up until now, with passive detection systems, which, to Gordon's

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