China's "Weather Balloon" - Page 3

Pio1980 · #21 02-05-2023, 05:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by finnbow

It seems to me that those who supported overthrowing our government a couple of years ago have no standing to opine on national defense issues.

Chinese balloons flew over US three times during Trump administration: officials
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3...ion-officials/

RickeyM · #22 02-05-2023, 08:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pio1980

Chinese balloons flew over US three times during Trump administration: officials
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3...ion-officials/

tRump is denying that so of course the GOP parrots will be saying the same. Sadly the POT's (Party Of Traitors) will never stop finding fault with Biden about this. If it's found to be benign they will dispute it. If we find out it was not so harmless after all they'll say he was derelict in not having it shot down the minute it crossed into U.S. airspace. All sorts of novel excuses will be given for why tRump didn't do the same or flat out denying it ever happened..

RickeyM · #23 02-05-2023, 10:24 PM

A sober account of the "balloon pop".
https://youtu.be/9WfUXU9N7YA

Chicks · #24 02-06-2023, 12:15 PM

SAN FRANCISCO (The Borowitz Report)—Elon Musk has been seething with envy over the media attention garnered by the Chinese spy balloon, the Twitter C.E.O. revealed.

“I don’t get it,” he said. “I’m super cool and interesting, and it’s just a freaking balloon. What does it even do? Just stupid balloon shit.”

“Probably, if the balloon was running Twitter, people would be willing to come into the office instead of working remotely,” he continued. “Oh, yeah, everybody just loves their precious balloon.”

Musk disclosed that the sensation the balloon has created is making him consider becoming a balloon himself.

“Only I wouldn’t be some boring balloon like that one,” he said. “Maybe I’d play music or have flashing lights, like at a rave. People would be, like, ‘Elon is such a freaking cool balloon.’ You’ll see.”

GChief · #25 02-07-2023, 05:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by finnbow

I suspect it is indeed a spy balloon, but we (nor anybody else) has the (known) ability to shoot down a stratospheric balloon. It's far higher than a fighter jet can fly and missiles won't explode upon hitting it and cannon-fire will pass straight through it. If we have an unknown capability of shooting it down, we may not want to reveal it to our adversaries.

Easy day for a fighter jet to shoot it down even at its highest altitude, and most missiles do not hit their targets. And just a fun fact even a DDG or CG could of shot it down near the coast at its highest altitude.

This opinion is from a guy that did collection intelligence and analysis, me. I like the way they did it. We probably gleamed a lot of info about its capabilities while easily "jamming" anything it was trying to transmit back. Soon we will have the hardware to analyze.