I

 

thought Ukraine 

was shooting them all down?

Russian cruise missiles have US Air Force scouting for thousands of acres of land

""The U.S. Air Force is moving ahead with its plan to build homeland-defense radars that can detect a new generation of Russian cruise missiles—including a search for sites whose total area could cover nearly half of Manhattan."

"The “initial architecture” calls for the U.S. to buy four long-range radars and for Canada to buy two, said Paul Ferraro, president of air power at Raytheon Technologies, which intends to bid to supply the systems."

"Each radar needs roughly 1,500 acres of land,..."

"America’s current homeland-defense radars weren’t designed to see low-flying cruise missiles of the sort that Russia has used to attack Ukraine. North American Aerospace Defense Command, the combined U.S.-Canadian command that operates the radars, has been called out for its gaps in detection after it missed Chinese surveillance balloons and other unidentified objects that have slipped into U.S. airspace. The command hopes this over-the-horizon radar program, which will integrate with existing radars, will fill some of those gaps."

(You really think there is time for all that?)

"Russia has a “threat that is very viable now that was not viable in the past—and that threat is for them to launch a cruise missile over the North Pole through Canada and either into Canada or the United States,” RTX’s Ferraro said."

(Been tellin ya for years now...)

"Such missiles would approach at low altitudes and have the ability to maneuver in flight, presenting a far different challenge from decades-old intercontinental ballistic missiles."