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It is located above a rural area.
“Why not shoot it down? We have to do the risk-reward here,” a senior defense official said on Thursday.
“So the first question is, does it pose a threat, a physical kinetic threat, to individuals in the United States in the US homeland? Our assessment is it does not.
Does it pose a threat to civilian aviation? Our assessment is it does not.
Does it pose a significantly enhanced threat on the intelligence side? Our best assessment right now is that it does not.
So given that profile, we assess the risk of downing it, even if the probability is low in a sparsely populated area of the debris falling and hurting someone or damaging property, that it wasn’t worth it.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/03/polit...index.html
“Why not shoot it down? We have to do the risk-reward here,” a senior defense official said on Thursday.
“So the first question is, does it pose a threat, a physical kinetic threat, to individuals in the United States in the US homeland? Our assessment is it does not.
Does it pose a threat to civilian aviation? Our assessment is it does not.
Does it pose a significantly enhanced threat on the intelligence side? Our best assessment right now is that it does not.
So given that profile, we assess the risk of downing it, even if the probability is low in a sparsely populated area of the debris falling and hurting someone or damaging property, that it wasn’t worth it.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/03/polit...index.html
