Zur Übergabe hat der Oberkommandierende des US-Südkommandos (Southcom), Craig S. Faller, erneut Kolumbien besucht. Dieser dritte Besuch innerhalb kurzer Zeit gibt Anlass zur Sorge, besonders im Hinblick auf die Interventionsversuche der USA im Nachbarland Venezuela.
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Pentagon testing mass surveillance balloons across the US
The FCC documents show that Southcom’s balloons are carrying small, satellite-like vehicles housing sophisticated sensors and communication gear. One of those sensors is a synthetic aperture radar intended to detect every car or boat in motion on a 25-mile swath beneath the balloon.
The balloons also have advanced mesh networking technologies that allow them to communicate with one another, share data and pass it to receivers on the ground below.