Boyd featured in multiple media outlets on spy balloon
Iain Boyd was interviewed by national and international outlets on the balloon from China that overflew the United States.
A professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boyd is also the director of the ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· Center for National Security Initiatives.
He spoke to multiple reporters on the highly unusual action by China last week and what we can learn from studying the wreckage.
"It would be very surprising if there's any technology on that platform that the US does not already have some equivalent form of, but it does give the potential to give the intelligence services here an understanding of the technological maturity that the Chinese have for these kinds of applications," he said.
“Part of me also wonders whether China really decided to do this provocative act as it underestimated the strength of the response from the US and the broad international interest in this story."