"Stolen" from Skydancer
Posted on 02/07/2023 10:22:06 AM PST by gandalftb
The Balloon Fart heard around the world!
Tower, this is ghostrider requesting a flyby
"Stolen" from Skydancer
I still don't know what the gender of the baby is tho....
I would encourage everyone to also listen to the accompanying YouTube video which has a bit more dialog than Tyler excerpted for the print article.
You really get a sense of how pulverized the payload was after the Sidewinder went off in proximity to it.
[pic with Biden shooting an imaginary shotgun] CAPOW!
Enjoyed that tremendously. Thank you.
“ 12:17: EAGLE01: EAGLE01 is tally one… There appears to be debris above. I do not see anything below the white parachute for now.”
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I think the “parachute” the pilots are mentioning is just the deflated balloon. The “payload” had been separated from the balloon and quickly fell MUCH faster than the streaming deflated balloon.
Only reason I can figure that we sent a missle instead of using guns is that we knew that it had potential for chaff so we wanted to keep the plane clear of any possible fod - which seems to be the case based on the results and the comms.
It’s ridiculous and stupid
Shoot the stupid thing down before it enters our airspace
Done
So stupid ….
Neither does/will the Baby!
“ You really get a sense of how pulverized the payload was after the Sidewinder went off in proximity to it. ”
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Monday morning quarterbacking here but I really wish they could have deflated the balloon without blowing up the “payload”. That way the payload could have fallen intact (at least until impact with the water) with its terminal velocity somewhat slowed by the deflated balloon acting as a “streamer”. The payload would then have been easier to locate and the pieces would have been close together at the bottom.
I don’t want to think that destruction of the payload was INTENTIONAL but that is a possibility,
Photo of average Americans seen by Chicom spy balloon....
“And tell your Ch-— rulers we’re free Americans down here and next time I’ll have my rifle in my hands. Shove off.”
Call sign FRANK for the F22 pilot references Frank Luke, the
“Arizonia Balloon Buster” who destroyed 14 Germen observation
Balloon on the Western Front in 1918
Just think. At the White House Command Center Commander in Chief Biden was running everything every step of the way. May as well have been in the cockpit himself as they fired.🤪
“I can’t tell you that. It’s classified.”
F TROOP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8qjxT1iIAM
IT IS BALLOON !!!
Yeah, I know what you mean, but the fact is that the F-22 was at around 59,000 feet moving mach 1.2, and the balloon was at 64,000 feet moving at 15 knots. The Sidewinder was fired 8 miles away from the target.
There is no weapon that the F-22 can carry that would be able to target the balloon that precisely.
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