Gen. Glen VanHerck, head of NORAD, takes questions on Chinese spy balloon. Was asked about previous balloons administration says crossed US in Trump years. Has very little to say. Then asked: If you didn't know about them then, how do you know now?

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[conservative98]

Gen. Glen VanHerck, head of NORAD, takes questions on Chinese spy balloon. Was asked about previous balloons administration says crossed US in Trump years. Has very little to say. Then asked: If you didn't know about them then, how do you know now? Has even less to say. pic.twitter.com/fA4Ri2Q1Up— Byron York (@ByronYork) February 6, 2023

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[FlingWingFlyer]

Jo Jo the Pedophile’s own General Buck Turgidson.

[Chengdu54]

I think I like how you think.

[PLMerite]

“At what point in their careers do they go to weasel word school?”

Command and Staff College.

[lodi90]

They sit around all day thinking up lies and “resisting” instead of doing the job they should be doing.

[SubMareener]

You don’t understand just how incompetent the Biden Administration is and how corrupt the IC has become. The heads of the IC said that the Laptop from Hell was Russian disinformation. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is worried about “whiteness.”

[bert]

Since the balloon did not explode when hit with a rocket, we can assume it was filled with helium and not hydrogen.

There was no visible directional control

My thought is that the balloon reached maximum altitude for the given weight and volume. It tracked westerly on a current at that altitude that was carefully tracked by the Chicoms.

Since we have a pretty good map, apparently there were others tracking the balloon as well

[mikey_hates_everything]

At what point in their careers do they go to weasel word school?

You missed "domain awareness gap". I think it starts at the War College, latest when they hit O-4.

[mikey_hates_everything]

The general is just another liar-for-hire.

Liar-for-hire is when they retire and get their payoff no-show job at SAIC, NG, GD or Raytheon.

[Sequoyah101]

So, he is another BS artist with nothing useful or truthful to say.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

You asked "How was a two hundred foot high balloon able to navigate, to change course and altitude?"

This technical paper might shed some light on that very question:

Analysis of long-endurance station-keeping flight scenarios for stratospheric airships in the presence of thermal effects

Authors:
Jie Wang, Beijing Institute of Technology, 100081 Beijing, People’s Republic of China
Xiuyun Meng, Beijing Institute of Technology, 100081 Beijing, People’s Republic of China
Cuichun Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100094 Beijing, People’s Republic of China
Wenjie Qiu, Beijing Aerospace Automatic Control Institute, 100039 Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Received 15 August 2020
Revised 18 January 2021
Accepted 26 January 2021
Available online 19 February 2021
Version of Record 6 May 2021

HIGHLIGHTS

• The relationship between the buoyancy and gravity is analyzed when the thermal effects are considered.
• Three station-keeping scenarios are proposed and compared for the stratospheric airship.
• The significance of pressure control and altitude control is revealed by the calculation and analysis.
• An effective way to specify the helium’s mass is presented when the thermal effects are considered.
• The airspeed control is shown as an efficient way to cut down the energy consumption during the long-endurance flight.

[jagusafr]

“They’ll have additional fidelity at this time.”

This was the kind of “cool kids” idiotic language I used to hate. Every time I went to DC for Pentagon briefings or to senior leadership gatherings, there was some new buzz phrase that got worked in (and worn out) during the event. Just. Speak. Plainly.

Colonel, USAF JAGCR (ret)

[suthener]

I wonder if this is the same general who told the American people, as condescendingly as he possibly could, they we could look up if they wanted to know where the balloon was?

[bunkerhill7]

Bidenict Arnold

[Blurb2350]

I noticed that too. “Additional fidelity . . .” Is that like sticking strictly to the narrative?

[plain talk]

By all means let's have the United States publicly discuss its detection capabilities past and present and outline our vulnerabilities.

[Avalon Memories]

Additional fidelity?

It doesn't seem like he even knows the meaning of the word. He says he has to "defer to the intel community because they'll have additional fidelity at this time." But fidelity is something you either have or don't have. Fidelity means being faithful or loyal. Neither this dufus of a general nor the so-called intel community are faithful to anything except themselves.

[glaseatr]

For those that think the Military will help rid the people of this criminal administration.....

I give you this fine example of the Military leadership.

We're doomed

[Williams]

The incursions were described as brief. So that’s a fudge word right there.

He’s being clear that the military did not detect those incursions and that the information comes from the Intel departments.

The Intel group is possibly claiming they have found evidence of prior incursions.

Boy that sure sounds like some BS coming from the intelligence agencies.

[HollyB]

I posted the transcript of the conversation yesterday , including the DOD web post at 41 & 43. 43 discusses the contradiction on explosives.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4129068/posts?page=41#41

[lodi90]

It does seem like mumbo jumbo CYA from the IC. Caught with their pants down again.