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Dry Run: Balloons Called Top ‘Delivery Platform’ For Nuclear EMP Attack
MSN ^ | 02/03/23 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 02/04/2023 11:00:20 AM PST by Enlightened1

High altitude balloons, like the one China has floated over mountain state military bases this week, are considered a key “delivery platform” for secret nuclear strikes on America’s electric grid, according to intelligence officials.

Spy balloons, used by Japan to drop bombs during World War II, are now far more sophisticated, can fly at up to 200,000 feet, evade detection and carry a small nuclear bomb that if exploded in the atmosphere would shutdown the grid and wipe out electronics in a many-state-wide area.

The threat of balloon launched electromagnetic pulse attacks was warned about by a congressional EMP commission and inside the military several years ago.

In a 2015 report for the American Leadership & Policy Foundation, Air Force Maj. David Stuckenberg, one of the nation’s leading EMP experts, wrote extensively about the threat balloons carrying bombs pose to national security.

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dry-run-balloons-called-top-delivery-platform-for-nuclear-emp-attack/ar-AA174OkJ

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: balloons; delivery; emp; goooh; manchurianjoe; manchurianmilley; platform; q; r; spartansixdelta
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61 posted on 02/04/2023 3:07:20 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: whitney69

Hell. I’m still pissed they took the CONELRAD indicators off my radio dials.


62 posted on 02/04/2023 3:10:15 PM PST by llevrok (Pronouns: Me/myself/& I)
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To: llevrok

Ahhh the good old days....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu4r79l8P8I


63 posted on 02/04/2023 3:12:51 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Enlightened1

No person with any knowledge of weapons systems think this is an EMP delivery vehicle.

It’s inaccurate.

It’s slow.

It’s easily detected and shot down.


64 posted on 02/04/2023 3:44:08 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: dfwgator

Yes speculation until they tell us what data was on the airship.


65 posted on 02/04/2023 3:48:02 PM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: Ann Archy

Maybe Milley’s good friend Xi called him back and told him not to worry that there was nothing dangerous for America on those balloons.

So Milley was cool.


66 posted on 02/04/2023 3:48:36 PM PST by R0CK3T
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To: R0CK3T

I am also sure SECDEF Austin got to where his COVID space helmet!


67 posted on 02/04/2023 3:50:46 PM PST by Reily
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To: Mariner

It does not have to happen from the air, it can be done from a cargo van.


68 posted on 02/04/2023 3:54:31 PM PST by M_Continuum
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To: llevrok

“...took the CONELRAD indicators off my radio dials.”

Funny how things change. The CONELRAD stations were there to give citizens advance warning of an imminent attack concerning things like this. But now by the time they opened the station and people tuned in, everything would be worthless as the air burst would shut down the radio anyway not to mention the station. So much for advanced warnings.

wy69


69 posted on 02/04/2023 4:10:33 PM PST by whitney69
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To: Enlightened1

Well said.

Like watching for Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction while Kim in North Korea completed his final nuclear ICBM program phases. No offense to old time GOP here.


70 posted on 02/04/2023 4:13:19 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: M_Continuum

If they’re going to do it in a cargo van or box truck, to be most effective they’ll need to drive to a high point in a major population center. Even a large building with roof top parking.

5 small box trucks would send the country back in time. All coordinated and planned. Like 911 for example.


71 posted on 02/04/2023 4:13:58 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Absolutely right. Good post.


72 posted on 02/04/2023 4:14:17 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: dragnet2

Yup. It’s a possibility. There was an emp exercise in 2019 and a PDF report is available. I haven’t made time to read it yet, but will.


73 posted on 02/04/2023 4:29:19 PM PST by M_Continuum
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To: dragnet2

Right now I believe only Russia and China have such capabilities with Taiwan and Iran working on it.


74 posted on 02/04/2023 4:31:07 PM PST by M_Continuum
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To: Jim Noble

I read taking Taiwan is on their agenda for 2027 & since DJT might just manage to get back in the WH they would run into likely resistance - if the generals don’t refuse to obey orders.. But...who knows.

The only thing I know for sure is that they’re trying to turn us into Chinese like obedient workers who own nothing and are told we should be happy anyway, a massive change in who owns what in our world.


75 posted on 02/04/2023 4:45:15 PM PST by Aria
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To: Enlightened1

What a crock. they tracked this from before the Aleutians and could have shot it down anytime. If private citizens didnt spot it, our traitor government wouldnt have said a word. It relayed back all the info constantly to chink satellites.


76 posted on 02/04/2023 4:50:05 PM PST by davidb56
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To: Tench_Coxe

“Because farm equipment is down”

There was a time when farm equipment was a simple diesel engine. Those would survive an EMP almost all the time.

Modern John Deere and Cat one’s are so computerized, they will die for good with an EMP.


77 posted on 02/04/2023 5:07:49 PM PST by George from New England
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To: Enlightened1

I posted a few articles earlier how the govt decided to reimplement to use of balloons

A couple interesting articles about our own and Chinas

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/05/u-s-militarys-newest-weapon-against-china-and-russia-hot-air-00043860

https://www.military.com/history/3-spy-aircraft-were-also-weather-balloons.html

The Pentagon plans to spend $27.1 million in fiscal year 2023 on balloon-related projects to get its own recon balloons into the stratosphere. It may seem like an idea from the 1960s, but high-altitude balloons 60,000-90,000 feet above the Earth’s surface, equipped with machine learning algorithms and solar panels, are a cheap, effective way to watch hypersonic missile testing from America’s geopolitical rivals. They can also loiter for much, much longer than any drone. If any of the massive balloons get forced down, they’d just be another weather balloon, which the National Weather Service still uses.

Please do not try to shoot down an NWS weather balloon.

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/digital-future-daily/2022/07/05/the-future-of-war-includes-balloons-00044104


78 posted on 02/04/2023 5:48:40 PM PST by HollyB
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To: davidb56

Yeap. He thought it was a UFO

https://www.ktvq.com/news/local-news/billings-photographer-inundated-with-interviews-after-taking-viral-photo-of-chinese-spy-balloon


79 posted on 02/04/2023 5:49:43 PM PST by HollyB
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To: dragnet2
If they’re going to do it in a cargo van or box truck...

Too many pieces. All of which are too easy to detect and intercept. And it would not take out our ICBM systems, or submarines. Probably would not even remove the bombers.

The executors of such a plan would perish in fire soon afterwards. Some of the more fanatical Middle Eastern types might go for that. The Chinese - never would. They would need American forces completely disbanded before they would try such a thing.

They are working on that last item. It is a 100-year project. They might lose the "mandate of heaven" before they can finish the project.

80 posted on 02/04/2023 6:19:21 PM PST by flamberge (What? Me worry?)
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