While the US military is capable of “a lot of things,” they are not planning to shoot down debris from a Chinese rocket, which is hurtling back to Earth in an uncontrolled reentry, Pentagon head Lloyd Austin has said.
Asked on Thursday about the unguided Long March 5B rocket parts careening toward the planet at around 15,000 miles per hour, the defense secretary said the latest estimates suggest it will crash-land sometime on Friday or Saturday, but noted there would be no attempt to blast it out of the sky.
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