Posted on 02/04/2023 6:49:13 AM PST by devane617
If we can’t capture those balloons we’ll have to shot them down fast.
It would be great to recover their spy technology intact though.
on coast of South Carolina now. The size of three Greyhound busses. No telling what it has spread across the USA or what it has caused. The is trouble and the Chinese know we would spot it. So, why did they do it unless there is a HUGE payback for the risk.
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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!
Ditto. No need for a warhead—A pellet gun would bring it down. This is a bizarre story and one that we may never know all the details, but all the China war talk started with the 4-star a couple weeks ago and the media has went to work pumping out China war stories. I guess we’ll find out soon.
It COULD have been a Dry Run: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dry-run-balloons-called-top-delivery-platform-for-nuclear-emp-attack/ar-AA174OkJ?fbclid=IwAR3ckKyxkx2eC8zURWyqujnXrqf6qX4mSq5ukqXX7sNpl43NLfTX0fBOWG8
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