The equally well advertised fact that US antennas on satellites, on land, sea, and air, intercept billions of communications strengthens that impression.

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When South Korea detected the plane, six air force jets scrambled to intercept it.

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Operation Airbridge Denial had supplied information from US surveillance equipment to local air force planes for them to intercept suspected drug flights.

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This will require immediately expanding the number of Navy ships with the Aegis fleet air defense system that are equipped to intercept ship-launched ballistic missiles.

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The flaws he found weren't instantly catastrophic, he said, but could be used to track private airplanes, intercept messages and jam communications between planes and air-traffic control.

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One result was that Raytheon was able to develop a new version of the Standard Missile used by the Navy for air defense engagements designated the SM-3 that was designed specifically to intercept ballistic targets.

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