you are on with marcus weisgerber.ler: the former military, iningwe were in basic tradin 31 years ago, there were certain munitions we could not use because of the cost. we went through the cold war and thought everything was calm by law -- law kumbaya, and now you have rogue nations like north korea and iran, iran, things like that. -- itdn't even think would be a slam-dunk to protect our country and keep -- actually renew all of our missiles, ballistic missiles across the country, and fixed all the old silos and update them. a lot of people say we knew not have the money. you will not have a country if you do not defended. not just wasting everything on money in the end, but update us and make us truly secure. if they do not have missile defenses, they will come in our right regretted our backyard. guest: you mentioned some of the potential future threats that are out there. the military is investing in systems that are designed for the future threats. a lot of the weapons now, some of the weapons being built, have e

host: got about 10 or 15 minutes left with marcus weisgerber with "defense news." guest: have been with them for a little bit more than a year. host: how many years have you been -- guest: the little more than six. host: rick from the democratic line in york. -- in new york. caller: when the drone went down in iran -- when they find stuff like that or the black caucus went down -- black caucus -- blackhawk -- the secrets that they can duplicate -- are we using our own weapons designed her and stuff against us? guest: and not expert and the type of encryption and technology used in the black boxes. broadly, yes, it does hurt overall when you have technology like the stealth technology on both the helicopter and the drone fall into the hands of people you do not want to have them. host: what is the most concerning incident of that happening guest? guest: especially the helicopter. no one knew the helicopter existed before that raid. when those pictures came up, people like myself and my colleagues were gathered a run that screen, saying, well, we never sought a tail