Chinese Spy Balloon
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China has reacted to the United States’ decision to shoot down its high-altitude balloon, saying that it "reserves the right to use necessary means to deal with similar situations."
US military fighter jets on Saturday shot down the Chinese high-altitude balloon over the Atlantic Ocean.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@George-K said in Chinese Spy Balloon:
And, what the actual fuck happened to Bill Kristol?
Extreme TDS resulting in a permanent mind-fuck.
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@George-K said in Chinese Spy Balloon:
China has reacted to the United States’ decision to shoot down its high-altitude balloon, saying that it "reserves the right to use necessary means to deal with similar situations."
US military fighter jets on Saturday shot down the Chinese high-altitude balloon over the Atlantic Ocean.
Indeed. Shameless.
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@Mik said in Chinese Spy Balloon:
@George-K said in Chinese Spy Balloon:
@jon-nyc said in Chinese Spy Balloon:
2 questions about the spy balloon…
Here's a suggestion, how about shooting it down over the Aleutian islands, when it was first spotted? It's even more sparsely populated there than Montana.
Yeah, I was thinking that too.
You don’t think they might have jammed its ability to transmit data from the onset? You can be assured that NORAD, CIA & NSA were deliberate in their handling of this incident throughout.
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@George-K said in Chinese Spy Balloon:
Chinese Spy Balloons Flew Over The U.S. When President Trump Was In Office
Ratcliffe denies.
He also says:
"If, in fact, "countermeasures" were taken to disable the reception/transmission of images collected by China's spycraft, as unnamed "officials" now claim was the reason for letting it continue its flight across U.S., why did Biden say he ordered the Pentagon to shoot it down Wed?
If, in fact, "countermeasures" were taken to scramble the spy craft sensors/cameras, at what point in its long deployment across America were they taken? Alaska? Montana? Missouri? How can the administration confirm nothing sensitive was transmitted back to Beijing?
If as anonymous "officials" are now saying after the fact that, don't worry, "countermeasures" were taken to scramble the sensor package from 60,000 feet, why the massive ocean salvage effort to recover the data so we can know what they now know about our military installations?"
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/04/politics/china-spy-balloon-tick-tock/index.html
More details on timing and rationales of the Biden administration's handling of the spy balloon incident.
Apparently they deliberately waited until the balloon floats over water to shoot it down because (1) the balloon's payload was the size of three coach busses so the risk of shooting it down over land carries risks of injuring people and damaging properties, and (2) Biden wanted the military to recover as much of the balloon's payload as possible so shooting it down over water presents better odds of preserving and recovering the payload for the military.
