Last week there was a supersonic jet that flew across the USA. I know what I heard and it wasn't simply a loud jet. The sound was heard a few minutes after I heard it on a news broadcast out of Washington, DC whereby the journalist was drowned out for the jet sounds in the background.
I would not put it past Trump to allow Russia to fly such a jet over the USA so long as it was unarmed. THAT IS TARGET PRACTICE. I have had enough of the outrageous acts by this president and this treaty needs to be assessed for the danger it provides to the American people while Trump continues to be in office.
October 2012
By Daryl Kimball
Signed March 24, 1992, (click here) the Open Skies Treaty permits each state-party to conduct short-notice, unarmed, reconnaissance flights over the others' entire territories to collect data on military forces and activities. Observation aircraft used to fly the missions must be equipped with sensors that enable the observing party to identify significant military equipment, such as artillery, fighter aircraft, and armored combat vehicles. Though satellites can provide the same, and even more detailed, information, not all of the 34 treaty states-parties1 have such capabilities. The treaty is also aimed at building confidence and familiarity among states-parties through their participation in the overflights.
President Dwight Eisenhower first proposed that the United States and the Soviet Union allow aerial reconnaissance flights over each other's territory in July 1955. Claiming the initiative would be used for extensive spying, Moscow rejected Eisenhower's proposal. President George H.W. Bush revived the idea in May 1989 and negotiations between NATO and the Warsaw Pact started in February 1990....
