Posted on 02/06/2023 1:21:47 PM PST by nickcarraway
The United States is recovering debris from the downed Chinese balloon in the Atlantic for analysis by intelligence experts and there is no plan to give the remains back to Beijing, officials said on Monday (Feb 6).
China says the balloon was an errant weather observation aircraft with no military purpose, but the United States says it was a sophisticated high-altitude spying vehicle.
"They have recovered some remnants off the surface of the sea and weather conditions did not permit much undersea surveillance of the debris field," US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said two days after a US fighter jet shot down the balloon.
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President Retard wanted to return it but China wouldn’t pay shipping and Joe is too cheap
Saved me the trouble to post that
Clearly you interpret the data differently from me. I see the intact payload falling away from the balloon.
I consider Ward "Mooch" Carroll highly reliable.
YMMV
Here is the official USAF Air Combat Command press release. It states an AIM-9X was used, but not a warhead-less training round.
The Payload does seem to be between the panels.
Ha! Nice reference to the opening sequence to “Spies Like Us”
The USN should do the same as the ChiComs did with the USN EP-3 in 2001. Return it, after a THOROUGH, months-long examination, in pieces, and charge the ChiComs for freight, salaries of all people working on the detection of, downing of, recovery of, inspection of, and return of, the balloon. Of course, the cost of one unarmed Sidewinder, fuel and all other costs associated with the F22. Then add in an additional $50 million for ‘incidentals’ and ‘aggravation’. (Pedo Joe’s ‘taste’ not included.)
LMAO - good one!
Funny thing; I don’t really believe China or my own U.S. government about what the balloon actually was.
After the explosion, the payload separated from the deflated balloon skin and descended at a higher rate than the balloon remains.
“There’s nothing of value to retrieve anyway, after being blown up by an AIM-9X Sidewinder, then plummeting 65,000 feet and slamming into the ocean surface.”
They recovered enough of the Challenger orbiter to pretty much reconstruct it.
China already has anything of value from it. Probably downloaded from the Google cloud.
I suspect so.
So...Biden allowed the Chinese to collect all the spy information it wanted...and then he destroyed the evidence.
🤣
Probably not. The encryption gear and the command-control systems were likely wired with self-destruct packages that would obliterate them. It would not take much to do that.
Then again, a technician could have gotten sloppy during the prelaunch checkouts and forgotten to arm or install a self-destruct package. Or it could have failed to activate.
Could be worth a look if it is not too hard to pick up the pieces. Might be embarrassing to find that the system is a Chinese knockoff of an American design with a few improvements.
Navy divers have discovered that it not a weather balloon, but is instead one of XI’s discarded condoms after effing the Biden Administration. Everyone knows there is no such thing as too much protection when engaging a Biden.
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