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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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To: Conservativetpa

the sound on these vids are strange... usually the “Boom” is several seconds after the contact. but this boom happened just as the 2 contrails from jet and missle appear individual. well before the baloon distorts and starts to fall.

No one else sees this??


141 posted on 02/05/2023 4:16:11 AM PST by sit-rep ( )
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To: 353FMG

Maybe Mr. 10% will have Hunters laptop to be shot down for the same reason to wipe out the evidence.


142 posted on 02/05/2023 4:18:09 AM PST by Blue Highway
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To: icclearly

Same geniuses that decided it was better to leave $85 BILLION worth of military assets in Afghanistan free for the taking


143 posted on 02/05/2023 4:33:49 AM PST by Blue Highway
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To: The Antiyuppie
This was already a fail when it got within 5 miles of the west coast or northern US border.

Even worse.

From one article I read it came across Alaska and then through Canada.

144 posted on 02/05/2023 4:42:40 AM 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: Blue Highway

A-A missiles do not boost the entire way. It may well have been changing altitude where contrail conditions come and go.

The fighter appears to be changing altitude as well.


145 posted on 02/05/2023 9:03:22 AM PST by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: 353FMG

Makes sense.


146 posted on 02/05/2023 11:32:02 AM PST by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
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To: 353FMG

I believe it was launched in north central China and then floated up to Alaska north of the Aleutian Islands. It could have been shot down over water while it was up there.

Who knows why it wasn’t shot down there or over Alaska or Canada (where it’s nothing but wilderness)?


147 posted on 02/05/2023 2:52:54 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Too romantic and too complicated. Just send a signal to detonate the sob when required intelligence has been received. Why wait till the sob descends? Just do it and raise the middle finger to America.


148 posted on 02/05/2023 5:14:43 PM PST by 353FMG (Secretly practicing my Putin swagger..)
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To: 353FMG

The reason I suggested what I did was to ensure destruction of the critical components in case the balloon is shot down. In that case the package starts to fall quickly and may fall into hostile hands, broken, soaked or otherwise. If the equipment self destructs on the way down, then the hostile power gets very limited information from the wreckage and the wreckage is spread over a larger region.


149 posted on 02/05/2023 5:29:02 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Organic Panic

>>Just in time to beat his chest for the State of the Union speech.<<

He may not even take his pilot shades off just to impress AOC and Omar as he gestures with his hands how he approached the balloon in his F-22 and launched the missile. This guy is unreal.He may go in a diatribe against Trump and how Trump failed to shoot down the many Chinese balloons during his time in office.


150 posted on 02/05/2023 5:35:07 PM PST by 353FMG (Secretly practicing my Putin swagger..)
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