A top U.S. general charged with monitoring the nation’s airspace said that the military didn’t detect previous incursions into U.S. airspace by Chinese spy balloons.
Air Force Gen. Glen VanHerck, who serves as commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), said that Chinese spy balloons previously went undetected on at least three occasions during the Trump administration.
“I will tell you that we did not detect those threats, and that’s a domain awareness gap,” VanHerck said during a press briefing on Feb. 6.
The appearance of a Chinese communist spy balloon over the continental United States this past week has raised concerns about the United States’s military and political readiness, as well as its ability to simply respond to possibly hostile violations of its sovereignty….