Posted on 02/03/2023 6:35:52 PM PST by bitt
Xi has more on the Bidens than Hillary does - else the balloons would be trash as a show of how “hard Biden works to keep us safe”...
No transponder, no country markings and large enough to be visible on radar...assuming such radars are calibrated to returns of such a low velocity.
Where ‘chinese’ came from is a good question indeed.
Just look at it. It’s obviously a contrail.
Everything bad has Biden’s finger prints on it.
PAYLOAD estimated at “3 Busloads”.
Liberals claim the Chinese spy balloon was just a bunch of hot air.
FYI: The warhead on the US Sidewinder missile did NOT detonate when it impacted the Chinese War Balloon. It could be because the target was too soft to cause the missile’s impact fuse to work, and maybe its proximity fuse could not “see” the thin floating balloon enough, that it was unable to reflect enough of a signal to “read” its proximity. But more likely? I believe the US Air Force removed the explosive warhead from the missile, so they were basically firing a supersonic dart at the balloon, so as to take no chances of damaging the technological apparatus it was carrying!
Sidewinder is heat seeking. Balloon has no jet engine to seek.
They would need to use a laser-guided missile, or maybe a laser-designated air-ground missile.
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