Pentagon tracking suspected Chinese spy balloon over the US

[Hamartia Antidote]

 

[hirobo2]

Told you guys they weren't gonna let that balloon go. We didn't want to shoot it down over land becoz it would create a large field of debris... blah blah blah! More like we didn't want it to smash into smithereens hitting the ground.

THIS from the same country that copied Hong Kong and made STAR WARS fictional movies out of the works they copied. Now, the same genious minds thought China made a better weather balloon than them, that Y they spent all that effort to salvage it!

 

[sutton999]

this is 2020 pic

 

[Stranagor]

China claims second suspected spy balloon over Latin America was also lost

China claims second suspected spy balloon over Latin America was also lost

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said that the balloon was an unmanned research airship that was blown off-course by weather.

nypost.com

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Lots of lost balloons popping up here and there... Lonely and adrift...

It should be no fun to be a balloon these days...

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Recovering debris from Chinese balloon, U.S. weighs Beijing's involvement

The latest information has only deepened the administration’s conviction that the balloon wasn’t "mainly” a weather-monitoring device as Chinese officials have claimed.

www.japantimes.co.jp

On the question of why China would commit the brazen spying that the U.S. claims, Biden said only that “they’re the Chinese government.”

VanHerck said the balloon was a “maneuverable platform,” and the administration gained a better sense of what it could do during the time it moved across the U.S.

He said China used the balloon’s “maneuverability to strategically position themselves to utilize the winds to traverse portions of countries that they want to see. But this gave us the opportunity to assess what they were actually doing, what kind of capabilities existed on the balloon, what kind of transmission capabilities existed.”

The latest information only deepened the administration’s conviction that the balloon wasn’t “mainly” a weather-monitoring device as Chinese officials have claimed. In a briefing Monday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning repeated China’s assertion that the balloon that passed over U.S. territory last week was an “isolated incident.”

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[datafreak]

China Warns Of "Necessary Response" After US Downs Suspected Spy Balloon

The Biden administration lauded the Pentagon for shooting down an alleged Chinese spy balloon off the US Atlantic coast on Saturday, but China angrily voiced its "strong dissatisfaction" at the move and said it may make "necessary responses."

www.ndtv.com

Are you kidding me? China is angry because their spy balloon entered another country and it was shot down?

I think they just like to loudly complain about everything

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

this is 2020 pic

We shot down and fished out one of your balloons in 2020 too?
How come China didn't complain?

Recovery crews fished the big white envelope of a Chinese surveillance balloon out of the ocean about 6 miles (10 kilometers) off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. 5, 2023. (Image credit: U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Tyler Thompson)

Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 recover a high-altitude surveillance balloon off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on Feb. 5, 2023. (Image credit: U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Tyler Thompson)

 

[fitpOsitive]

Some people are finding balloons, others are finding pigeons.
Yeh ho kia raha hai.

 

[datafreak]

We shot down and fished out one of your balloons in 2020 too?
How come China didn't complain?

ohhh boy....now we'll know what 'meterolical balloon' really has

 

[Stranagor]

China Sends Spy Balloons Over Military Sites Worldwide, U.S. Officials Say

The balloons have some advantages over the satellites that orbit the earth in regular patterns. They fly closer to earth and can evade radar.

www.nytimes.com

Breaking News: China sends spy balloons over military sites worldwide, U.S. officials say

China’s spy balloons are part of an effort to assess the military capabilities of countries around the world, U.S. officials say.


The balloons have some advantages over the satellites that orbit the earth in regular patterns. They fly closer to earth and can evade radar.

 

[Stranagor]

Chinese Balloon Had Tools to Collect Electronic Communications, U.S. Says

China’s surveillance balloons have flown over more than 40 countries and are directed by the Chinese military, the State Department said. The F.B.I. is studying debris.

Chinese Balloon Had Tools to Collect Electronic Communications, U.S. Says

China’s surveillance balloons have flown over more than 40 countries and are directed by the Chinese military, the State Department said. The F.B.I. is studying debris.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Menthol]

only Chinese can know who is who, why everything is so secret with Chinese?

Because the Western media is self-censoring themselves everything about China.

 

[jhungary]

ohhh boy....now we'll know what 'meterolical balloon' really has

Some info has already been released thru Pentagon

In case you are too busy to watch the video.

1. This is a Spy Balloon equipped with high power antenna for SIGINT operation (Just as I predicted)
2. U-2 Spy plane has been following the Balloon and taking picture and getting "match" on the balloon during flight.
3. No Meterological equipment were found (does not mean there aren't any, just that they can't find them yet) on the wreckage so far.

 

[datafreak]

Some info has already been released thru Pentagon

In case you are too busy to watch the video.

1. This is a Spy Balloon equipped with high power antenna for SIGINT operation (Just as I predicted)
2. U-2 Spy plane has been following the Balloon and taking picture and getting "match" on the balloon during flight.
3. No Meterological equipment were found (does not mean there aren't any, just that they can't find them yet) on the wreckage so far.

I wonder what made them think it will not be shot down. I refuse to believe that 'they just wanted to f*** with the US and sent it knowing fully well it will be shot down. There are so many of them they have sent around the world. Maybe they under estimated the ability of the US to track these things.

 

[jhungary]

I wonder what made them think it will not be shot down. I refuse to believe that 'they just wanted to f*** with the US and sent it knowing fully well it will be shot down. There are so many of them they have sent around the world. Maybe they under estimated the ability of the US to track these things.

Well, not saying that is my opinion, but had a chat with my lawyer wife who practice international law.

She said the reason why China said it was a weather balloon and insist it was so thought out is that there is a clause in ICAO law stated that it is considered an act of war to shoot down civilian craft (It specify light craft such as balloon) that drifted into another nation airspace, so by claiming it was a weather balloon and US using force on downing the balloon is US committing an act of war on China.

But then it was her opinion that this is not a light civilian craft if the balloon is 90 ft in length.......

 

[Dalit]

What a comedy. I enjoyed the triggered Democrats thoroughly. Nothing else to say.