The military expert on FoxNews was saying it's easy
Chinese Spy Balloon
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It was floating with the prevailing upper atmospheric winds.agent-maroon said:One would certainly hope so. But what was it trying to accomplish with all the maneuvering? Did someone think it could run away somewhere and hide?Quote:
I'm guessing we disabled it's surveillance capabilities before this hit the news.
If this thing sinks where we can recover nothing, I'm calling 100% planned as a distraction.
Cromagnum said:
If this thing sinks where we can recover nothing, I'm calling 100% planned as a distraction.
Edit: of course it looks now like we destroyed everything of value on it with the missile.
Thought I had read earlier in this thread that it was being intentionally maneuvered and the Pentagon had confirmed this capability. But perhaps not.
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Multiple sources claiming the balloon thing happened during the Trump admin as well, so Reps also sat on their hands and kept silent. Maybe not all of them knew, but calling out Dems at this point after it blew up in public is just political grandstanding, they were just as much wusses when at the wheel.
Maybe it was a civilian meteorological research balloon that went off course.
I kind of thought the same. It looked like it came apart immediately. That may have just been the solar panels, but it didn't look like it would hold up structurally to a rapid descent.Cromagnum said:Cromagnum said:
If this thing sinks where we can recover nothing, I'm calling 100% planned as a distraction.
Edit: of course it looks now like we destroyed everything of value on it with the missile.
bmks270 said:
Maybe it was a civilian meteorological research balloon that went off course.
Right, and the weather just happened to perfectly meanuever it over our key military installations.
for all the "experts" on here over the last two daysakaggie05 said:
It just got shot down.
claiming it would be SO DIFFICULT if not impossible to shoot it down
No. We know this was a spy balloon.bmks270 said:
Maybe it was a civilian meteorological research balloon that went off course.
It doesn't surprise us that China has spy balloons.
These flights likely happen all the time and we've known about them. Guy on Fox Live indicated this was a very low operational flight for these types of balloons which is why the public was able to see it. You would typically expect something like this to be aloft at 80,000ft or higher. He speculated it malfunctioned and flew lower than intended.mike0305 said:
Multiple sources claiming the balloon thing happened during the Trump admin as well, so Reps also sat on their hands and kept silent. Maybe not all of them knew, but calling out Dems at this point now that it blew up in public is just political grandstanding, they are just as much wusses when at the wheel.
bmks270 said:
Maybe it was a civilian meteorological research balloon that went off course.
Maybe Covid came out of a wet market in Wuhan
So we did the stupidest most backwards thing we possibly do in this situation.Cromagnum said:Cromagnum said:
If this thing sinks where we can recover nothing, I'm calling 100% planned as a distraction.
Edit: of course it looks now like we destroyed everything of value on it with the missile.
Par for the course then.
Great job to everyone involved.
how much does the CCP pay you to post on message boards?bmks270 said:
Maybe it was a civilian meteorological research balloon that went off course.
You mean two people?LMCane said:for all the "experts" on here over the last two daysakaggie05 said:
It just got shot down.
claiming it would be SO DIFFICULT if not impossible to shoot it down
It’s appears that a Missile fired from one of the F-22s is what was used to shoot down the Chinese High-Altitude Surveillance Balloon. pic.twitter.com/Cn1IkplsXc
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) February 4, 2023
Definitely looks like the sensor package took a direct hit and fell separately from the balloon. We will pat ourselves on the back, China already has everything they were after, and we will never know what all Intel they collected.
Yeah, because the dems would never have tried to blow up a story about freaking Chinese spy balloons flying all over our sensitive military installations and the Trump administration just sitting on its hands to score some cheap political points.mike0305 said:
Multiple sources claiming the balloon thing happened during the Trump admin as well, so Reps also sat on their hands and kept silent. Maybe not all of them knew, but calling out Dems at this point after it blew up in public is just political grandstanding, they were just as much wusses when at the wheel.
lol
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It's not that hard to shoot these things down. As witnessed already. Especially with multiple tries.
The consideration was of falling munitions and debris. Which is a whole other conversation in itself…
The consideration was of falling munitions and debris. Which is a whole other conversation in itself…
Whatever we will be told will be a lie.
China can certainly s my d, but our gov will do nothing unless it benefits the aristocrats in Washington DC.
China can certainly s my d, but our gov will do nothing unless it benefits the aristocrats in Washington DC.
are you just ignorant of reality or willfully spreading Chinese Communist propaganda?Not a Bot said:It was floating with the prevailing upper atmospheric winds.agent-maroon said:One would certainly hope so. But what was it trying to accomplish with all the maneuvering? Did someone think it could run away somewhere and hide?Quote:
I'm guessing we disabled it's surveillance capabilities before this hit the news.
Reuters
Chinese spy balloon changes course, floating over central United States- Pentagon
Fri, February 3, 2023 at 1:51 PM EST
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Chinese spy balloon has changed course and is now floating eastward at about 60,000 feet (18,300 meters) over the central United States, demonstrating a capability to maneuver, the U.S. military said on Friday, in the latest twist to a spying saga that led U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to postpone a visit to China.
It was a good shot. Looks like maybe a Sidewinder based on the contrail and short range. Likely able to get a good lock on the big truss section.LMCane said:for all the "experts" on here over the last two daysakaggie05 said:
It just got shot down.
claiming it would be SO DIFFICULT if not impossible to shoot it down
Looks like what would be an AIM-9X which would have both IR and a radar seeker. That's why it hit the sensor which had a bigger radar return than the balloon itself. Just my uneducated assumption.Not a Bot said:It’s appears that a Missile fired from one of the F-22s is what was used to shoot down the Chinese High-Altitude Surveillance Balloon. pic.twitter.com/Cn1IkplsXc
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) February 4, 2023
So what does POTATUS say about this at the SOTU on Tuesday?
I'm sitting here this whole time thinking, ok ... I trust that someone has got a plan and knows what they are doing. There's a lot we don't know. The main consideration is capturing the ballon with electronics intact.
[Pepaw:] ... shoots down balloon with missile over ocean
Ok.
Back to your regularly scheduled programming.
[Pepaw:] ... shoots down balloon with missile over ocean
Ok.
Back to your regularly scheduled programming.
it probably had Hunter's laptop and Hillary's emails onboard
Now the electronics can go to the bottom of the ocean say hey to bin Laden.
So no intelligence gained from either.
So no intelligence gained from either.
What would the armchair generals of F16 have done differently?
Had to get permission from panda boss man before taking it down. Xiden is just following his orders.Cromagnum said:
If this thing sinks where we can recover nothing, I'm calling 100% planned as a distraction.
bmks270 said:
Maybe it was a civilian meteorological research balloon that went off course.
You just get out of bed? Quit covering for your leader.
The same thing that you just watched on TV, EXCEPT A DAMN WEEK AGO!dead said:
What would the armchair generals of F16 have done differently?
The US has the best geographic advantage of any country and we failed to take advantage of it. Oceans to the East and West. Not so dense Canada to the North along most of the border. And not so dense Mexico within 100 miles of the border. Anything unidentified within 100 miles of US territory should be shot down immediately. I don't care if it happens in Mexico or Canada, we can makeup for any damage it causes to them. This is the price for security.
redcrayon said:
It probably wasn't able to gather/transmit info anymore which is why it wouldn't make sense to endanger civilians to shoot it down.
This!
The threat to national security did not outweigh the risk of killing civilians on the ground
Ok, Nostradamus
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