Pentagon tracking suspected Chinese spy balloon over the US

[epebble]

I would much rather a lot of fake Rolex washed up on the shore.......

Fake Rolexes are not waterproof. They are junk after falling into salt water.

 

[jhungary]

Fake Rolexes are not waterproof. They are junk after falling into salt water.

You are suspiciously well verse on the fake rolex.........hmmmm...

 

[White and Green with M/S]

civilian target doesn't count

You have no proofs that it was civilian research balloon

 

[epebble]

You are suspiciously well verse on the fake rolex.........hmmmm...

Have been a victim of some good-looking fake watches, (not Rolex). Forget salt water, they didn't keep time.

 

[jhungary]

Have been a victim of some good-looking fake watches, (not Rolex). Forget salt water, they didn't keep time.

oh.....sorry to hear that.....

 

[kingQamaR]

Why would china use a balloon for spying when it has satellites?

 

[Oldman1]

If they have concrete proof they would have already released it to the press, so far there are no photos no videos not even a named source.

Your government says its from China. Also even threaten retaliation for the balloon getting blown out of the sky.

Why would china use a balloon for spying when it has satellites?

Why we still use spy planes when we have satellites?

 

[Oldman1]

For a country that has a very large history of spying on other countries, to be upset, when another country spies on them, is rather silly

They already sending the so called weather balloon into Latin America.

An Arizona balloon company is working on a technology to make space satellites obsolete. Here's a rare look inside their giant factory.

World View is creating technologies to disrupt big parts of the satellite and rocket-launch industries. The company's Stratollites are designed to dangle from high-altitude balloons and achieve many of the capabilities of satellites at a fraction of the cost. World View also plans to launch people.

www.businessinsider.com

It would be a game-changing development, since the view from about 100,000 feet up can be as good or better than a view from space.​

A view of Earth and a mid-flight airplane photographed by one of World View's Stratollite balloon craft. World View

 

[jhungary]

Why would china use a balloon for spying when it has satellites?

there are something you can't do with Satellite, like Geo Sensing with RF, EM, radiographic and so on.

Also balloon is slow, so you can scan a lot bigger an area than by passing satellite

 

[bilibili]

 

[大汉奸柳传志]

Your government says its from China. Also even threaten retaliation for the balloon getting blown out of the sky.

The strong response pretty much confirmed it's not a spy balloon, otherwise the response would have been a lot lower profile, that's the unwritten rule. Like the last time we fished out the underwater spy UAV, the Americans didn't say a word.

 

[kingQamaR]

there are something you can't do with Satellite, like Geo Sensing with RF, EM, radiographic and so on.

Also balloon is slow, so you can scan a lot bigger an area than by passing satellite

Yes you right, satellites, ballon’s , and aircraft all have different capabilities and limitations. Satellites have the the advantage of providing long-range communications and remote sensing capabilities, but they are limited in their ability to physically interact with the environment. Balloons and aircraft, on the other hand , have limited communication and sensing capabilities, but they can physically interact with the environment. They can also be used to insert malware into a computer network , but they are not the only means to do so. I hope China has not done neither this will just escalate things for Beijing.

 

[Ali_Baba]

So China will also has excuse to bring down any American junk that fly over Chinese territory in the future.

I think that was the entire point of this exercise. The Americans may well be violating Chinese airspace now with American systems - now they can go to down shooting them down with any kind of recourse.

China says it 'reserves the right' to deal with 'similar situations' after US jets shoot down suspected spy balloon | CNN

China has expressed its "strong dissatisfaction and protest" against the United States' decision to shoot down its high-altitude balloon, accusing it of "overreacting" and "seriously violating international practice."

edition.cnn.com

China just said as much.

 

[doorstar]

With each day that passes, I become more convinced that the US is becoming India. Everything the US has done during its hilarious balloon tantrum is exactly what India would have done. The only difference is that India would have shot down a bunch of its own assets trying to shoot down the balloon, so the US does still maintain a modicum of military competence.

the kwaad effect

 

[Tomcats]

I think the story is not that we didn't detect that balloon on their way here, the story is why the Pentagon is telling you they are coming in now, when I was in Military Intelligence, we already knew these kinds of activities, there are actually quite frequent to have Chinese Ballon fly over hitting and missing NORAD, but the government never tell anyone about it, why now? That probably is where the real story goes.

Yep, the fact that even past incidents are now surfacing, being publicly acknowledged is interesting.