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VIDEO: The Moment An F-22 Raptor ‘Takes Down’ The Chinese Spy Balloon Over South Carolina
The Free Press-Tampa ^ | 02/04/2023 | Mike Jenkins

Posted on 02/04/2023 12:52:37 PM PST by Conservativetpa

Onlookers swarmed social media with videos of the Chinese spy balloon being “taken out” over the waters in South Carolina Saturday.

“Looks like here we see the contrail of the missile and the F-22 that fired the shot at the #ChinaSpyBalloon,” said user Thenewsarea51.

(Excerpt) Read more at tampafp.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: balloon; chinese; f22; spy
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1 posted on 02/04/2023 12:52:37 PM PST by Conservativetpa
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To: Conservativetpa
A day late and a dollar short.

2 posted on 02/04/2023 12:54:22 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Conservativetpa
The Moment An F-22 Raptor ‘Takes Down’ The Chinese Spy Balloon Over South Carolina

Back in WWI taking down a balloon counted toward becoming an Ace!

Re-start the F-22 Production Line!

3 posted on 02/04/2023 12:55:01 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Ultra MAGA in Biden's Post Constitutional United Socialist States of Amerika!)
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To: Conservativetpa

AND NOT A MOMENT TOO SOON...wait...


4 posted on 02/04/2023 12:55:58 PM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: Conservativetpa

It could have been taken down over US waters off the coast of Alaska.

Since that wasn’t done, was there some type of intelligence the US was getting from the presence of the balloon?


5 posted on 02/04/2023 12:56:55 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
A day late and a dollar short.

Pedo Joe was ordered by the chicoms to let it finish the intelligence gathering mission or the check wouldn't clear.

6 posted on 02/04/2023 12:57:28 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Ultra MAGA in Biden's Post Constitutional United Socialist States of Amerika!)
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To: Conservativetpa

This whole thing is bonkers.


7 posted on 02/04/2023 12:58:15 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it’s the other way”)
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To: packagingguy

No, Bidet was letting the Chicoms get intelligence on us.


8 posted on 02/04/2023 12:58:42 PM PST by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: Conservativetpa

The video looks like the missile missed the balloon but the balloon still goes down.


9 posted on 02/04/2023 12:59:25 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Conservativetpa

Wonderful news.

The balloon has crossed the Continental US and gathered whatever intelligence the Chinese wanted.

Then our glorious leader had the balloon shot down over the Alantic Ocean, so recovery of the balloon’s technology package will be problematic at best.

To my mind Biden is doing almost exactly everything the Chinese could hope for.


10 posted on 02/04/2023 1:00:29 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Conservativetpa

So ... we waited until the CCP downloaded all the captured data - smart!


11 posted on 02/04/2023 1:00:48 PM PST by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: Jim W N

Proximity warhead. Expanding fragment cone.

Popped it good.


12 posted on 02/04/2023 1:03:19 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: Pontiac

Data was certainly uplinked to satellite constantly. The chicoms lost nothing.


13 posted on 02/04/2023 1:04:51 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: Conservativetpa

[] barn door >>>>>>>> horse


14 posted on 02/04/2023 1:05:52 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: doorgunner69

True, but we lost any idea of what the balloons capabilities were.


15 posted on 02/04/2023 1:06:18 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Jim W N

My guess is that the instrument package was the thing they could get a radar lock on. Fragments then pierced the balloon.


16 posted on 02/04/2023 1:06:37 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Conservativetpa

Bidung had to wait until Xi gave permission for the shoot down.


17 posted on 02/04/2023 1:06:59 PM PST by 43north (America doesn't need an election. We need an exorcism.)
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To: packagingguy

I think Biden was allowing them to get everything the CCP wanted, and then ordered this now to try to look good. And people will eat it up, thinking he’s some gd hero or something.


18 posted on 02/04/2023 1:07:01 PM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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To: Conservativetpa

This is bizzaro land..
Every day i’m more convinced that we live in a simulation....that’s gonna end soon.


19 posted on 02/04/2023 1:07:27 PM PST by mowowie
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To: beethovenfan

That’s what I think. This now is a face-saving maneuver.


20 posted on 02/04/2023 1:07:41 PM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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