David Rosenthal: belief

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…We were super wrong about their radar. They didn't just have low altitude radar. They were capable of radar that could see straight up into space. Wherever we were flying, they were going to see us. Yup, which we had no idea, so we learned this as part of it. Here's what's funny. We know that they see it from takeoff. They track the U-2 the whole way. This whole top secret program like, oh, no, it's busted. They see it, but it turns out that they can't hit it. A whole bunch of fighter jets scramble. The fighter jets, they can't get up that high, so they can't intercept it. They launched surface to air missiles. The missiles can't hit anything that high up. The U-2 just flies along. They're tracking it the whole way. There are planes flying along behind it, and they can't do anything. At least we get the Intel now in the US that, okay, they can see up here. It's probably just a matter of time before they're capable of shooting something down up here, too.…

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