Jefferson Airplanes
there is a treaty that has 34 countries in it including United States and Russia. I think it is called the open sky treaty.
The purpose is to allow countries to surveillance missions over other countries to check troop formations look for sudden massing of troops tanks etc missle installations etc.
the goal is transparency to avoid conflict and war.
the United States is now getting out complaining that Russia sometimes breaks the rules.
I don’t know enough about this to say it is a good or bad idea.
but the sick in the pit of my stomach part of this is that trump is having all of the special airplanes used in this program destroyed....,.junked and scrapped never to be used again.
So if Biden wanted to stay in the program there are no airplanes available.
this is real stuff. Can’t make it up.
AND NOW.....THE REST OF THE STORY.
I read this article, and if you read far enough you'll fine the equipment used is obsolete, cost prohibitive to maintain and yet another sop to the military-industrial complex and the beauracratic cronies in the swamp of Washington D.C.
For those of you not yet convinced, I would remind you...we have newer better stuff. We call them satellites.