No Plan To Shoot Down Out-Of-Control Chinese Rocket: US Defence Chief

"We have the capability to do a lot of things, but we don't have a plan to shoot it down as we speak," Lloyd Austin told journalists.

The US military has no plans to shoot down an out -of-control Chinese rocket now hurtling towards Earth, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday. "We have the capability to do a lot of things, but we don't have a plan to shoot it down as we speak," Austin told journalists. Pentagon experts expect the body of the Long March 5B rocket, which fell out of orbit after separating from Beijing's space station, to fall to the surface some time around Saturday or Sunday. But exactly when and where it will land is still difficult to predict.