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U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese surveillance balloon
The U.S. military on Saturday shot down a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that had been transiting across the country for several days. (www.cnbc.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
We used to shoot balloons as target practice and I can attest that they are sometimes hard to deflate with just fifty caliber rounds. However, I would like to see some test data regarding various methods that are cost-effective at deflating high altitude balloons. It seemed awfully expensive to use a $427,000 missile, if other more cost effective means were available. I also have grown to distrust everything that comes out of the "woke-Pentagon" or the Biden administration. Mr. Biden appears to be a Communist puppet, to me. I cannot imagine any logical reason for allowing a spy balloon to overfly the whole country, and only then shoot it down, after the Communist Chinese have gotten all of the imagery and sigint that they wanted.
If, in fact, this was an intelligence-gathering balloon, chances are it did not plan to wait until it circumnavigated the globe back to China to have the info downloaded. It would have been equipped to radio data back to China at any point on the journey. My question is how was this balloon made to maneuver? Did it have flight control surfaces that popped out when they needed to alter course? If our intelligence gathering community is so great, wouldn't they have been able to detect any radio signals eminating from the balloon and block or jam those signals?
If, and I really mean if, the Pentagon knew what was happening with both of these "objects," then I think it would have been a wonderful opportunity for The White House or The Pentagon to tell us and the World, that we were 'on-top' of the situation and had decided to let object #1 float over the Continental U. S. as it was provided an unbelievable opportunity for our military and technical experts to 'mine' the data that the object's payload was collecting. It's not as if people in Montana were oblivious to this thing hanging out over their State. Again "IF."
I'd say recommission an SR-71 and sortie over China. Just to see if they could see it. And if they'd fire on it. And then outrun their missiles.
OK, wishful thinking on my part just because I like the Blackbird lol.
OK, wishful thinking on my part just because I like the Blackbird lol.
So now we’ve shot down something else that was approaching Alaska. We don’t seem to know what it was. What the heck is going on?
I can't get past the fact that the title calls this a "suspected" surveillance balloon. Suspected?!?!?! If anyone is still just "suspecting" this, please let me know, I have a slightly used bridge in Brooklyn that I can get you a bargain price on!