00:00The flyovers have begun in earnest. I'd say every minute, another plane or series of planes
00:04flying by. So far, we've seen Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, many more to come. And the applause,
00:10I don't know if you can hear it from my mic. The piers here on the west side of Manhattan,
00:14full of people who have thronged to this river to watch these flyovers take place. And this is
00:19really just the beginning of what's going to be a very action-packed day here on the Hudson River.
00:24Not only are we having these flyovers, Christina, there is a parade of tall ships and a naval review
00:28as well, and the vice president in town for that. That's right. I think, Colonel Sanders,
00:31you can check me if you can see them. I think those were some A-10s that just flew behind
00:35us.
00:35I know you were talking about those earlier in the essential role they play in providing air cover
00:39when you're in the fields. I don't know if you're still with us and you were able to see what
00:42just
00:43passed behind us. But what are some of the aircrafts that you think really stand out and are some of
00:47the most useful to folks when they are in combat? Yeah, I would say you named two of them right
00:54before we went on to break, too. And I would say it's the P-8. The P-8 is the
00:58Navy's submarine
00:59hunter. You saw a lot of that being used over the springtime, into the summer, because if that
01:06aircraft carriers are the fist of American sea power, the P-8 is the eyes and ears. It's one of
01:11the things that can help. It searches thousands of square miles of ocean in a single mission,
01:15tracking submarines that are designed not to be found. And as Russia and China expand their submarine
01:21fleets, aircraft like the P-8 become that much more strategically valuable. And then the Hawkeye.
01:27The Hawkeye is the carrier strike group's airborne air traffic controller. So you add air traffic
01:32control, radar station, and battlefield commander all rolled into one. So if fighters win dogfights,
01:38the Hawkeye makes sure that they know where to go before the fight even begins. And then looking
01:44forward into future conflict, I think that the strategic bomber fleet proved what it can do,
01:49because as adversaries capabilities for air defense and integrated air and missile defense
01:54commands for our adversaries continue to get better, we have to be able to be faster and more
02:00stealthy. We have to continue with our stealth technology so that we can reach target space
02:06if called upon, right? We don't need to go all the time or anything like that, but we need as
02:11a
02:11strategic deterrence message, we need to be able to let adversaries know the U.S. can reach out and touch
02:16anyone in the world, even with the most advanced radars in the world out there.
02:22Colonel, you talked about a very technical term, stealthiness. But I do know there is also talk
02:28about the next generation of stealth fighters. I imagine with modern technology, it is getting
02:32harder and harder to achieve stealth. There's so many different ways, even private sector ways to
02:37be detected. What is next on the horizon for that technology and what is needed from an operational
02:42standpoint? Yeah, I think it's going to continue. You're going to see the cat and mouse game no
02:48matter what. One of the things that you're going to see is a continuation of minerals, right? The
02:54coatings that are used in stealth technology continue to advance, because everything that you're trying
02:59to do with the radar system, right, is you are trying to be able to identify a signature that's out
03:03there that's not normally detected and being able to see it. So as you create different designs of
03:10aircraft to make it so that the radars can't see you, low observable aircraft, this is one of the
03:15pieces that becomes that much more important is the materials that are used, the heat signatures that
03:20an aircraft produces, you've got to be able to do everything you can to obfuscate what that actually
03:25looks like. And so I think between the technology that you're seeing and the minerals and
03:34the raw materials that are used specifically, science continues to advance and say, okay, it used to
03:39look like this. Now, if I make this one tweak to this metal, if I heat it differently, and I
03:43do
03:44this, it will change all of its characteristics. And I think that's one of the things that you're
03:48seeing between fourth generation, fifth generation, and now soon to be sixth generation aircraft.
03:56Just want to catch everybody up to speed here, watching these planes come by on the Hudson River,
04:01again, about a minute each between each of these groups. And Colonel Sanders, if I could just ask you,
04:05Vice President Vance, as we've mentioned, is in the city here. He's on a naval ship as well,
04:09I believe, doing this review of the ships that will be passing by in a moment's time. Talk a bit
04:14about that review, the symbolic importance of the Vice President being here for that part of this.
04:19I think it goes to show how much the administration cares about its military, about its service members,
04:26as well as the protection of the United States. Part of this international review also shows the
04:31importance that it places on our allies and how important they are to us. And so when Vice President
04:37Vance is there and he's actually having this conversation, he's bringing up his speech,
04:41I think one of the biggest things you're going to see is patriotism. Even Governor Westmore,
04:45when he was on, right, he said that patriotism isn't political. And I think that that's super
04:50important. I think you're going to see Vice President Vance really be able to settle in on
04:54the fact that he's in New York, one of the most powerful cities in the world. And he's there as,
05:00hey, guess what? We are the greatest country in the world. And no matter which political side you may fall
05:06on, we are still the greatest country in the world. And that's why people continue to come here
05:11to live their lives. And I think that you're going to see that in both things that President
05:14Trump talks about as well as Vice President Vance.
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