Chinese Spy Balloon Path
It even “at times [flew] figure eight formations” over our most sensitive military installations, including our nuclear missiles and nuclear-capable stealth bombers.
Posted on 04/03/2023 10:39:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Chinese spy balloon that was allowed to spend a week flying over the U.S. was able to transmit secret intelligence to Beijing about several military bases “in real time,” according to a Monday morning news report.
Three unnamed officials told NBC News that Communist China was able to “gather intelligence from several sensitive American military sites.”
The intel China gathered “was mostly from electronic signals,” according to NBC, “which can be picked up from weapons systems or include communications from base personnel, rather than images, the officials said.”
The balloon could be remotely controlled, allowing it to loiter over military installations like Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana. Malmstrom is home to more than 3,000 Air Force personnel of the 341st Missile Wing. They operate three squadrons of Minuteman III nuclear missiles — one-third of our ground-based nuclear deterrent.
The balloon also spent a little time over Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. Whiteman, by the way, is where the Air Force bases its only unit of B-2 Spirit stealth heavy bombers.
You’ll love this next part, also courtesy of NBC News. The Chinese spy balloon was able to report back to Beijing “despite U.S. efforts to block it.”
You know what would have put a stop to the spying?
Not by jamming the signal, which the story made no claims ever happened anyway. Not by playing hide-and-seek, which is only good against video spying and not the signals intel the balloon was gathering. And certainly not by publicly dithering over what to do.
The correct course of action, when a rival’s spy balloon flies into our airspace, is to shoot the thing down. That’s exactly what the Biden Administration finally did, after Beijing’s aircraft had finished its cross-country tour of the continental United States.
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It even “at times [flew] figure eight formations” over our most sensitive military installations, including our nuclear missiles and nuclear-capable stealth bombers.
not necessarily.....he was already a fool.
RE: Three unnamed officials told NBC News that Communist China was able to “gather intelligence from several sensitive American military sites.”
I really hate it when they quote anonymous sources. How do we even know that these sources really exist and they’re not making things up?
That's four entities with no credibility ...
Lol
How much was the Biden family paid off to be made a fool of by the Chinese?
Biden Administration has made fools of America.
Joe Biden does that every day. The feds have a large heavy bit in the carriage horses mouth, blinders on its head, and the wagon it’s pulling has fixed steering with the wheels in tracks already laid.
Lol
Sorry for the double post.
So this one balloon now has all our military bases on THEIR data base.
That is what happens when your president is owned by your country’s greatest enemy…
Executions for extreme incompetence need to take place in short order.
I bet Putin has all the documents of our launch bases—you don’t think Xi shares with his new BF Putin? Did Hitler share with Mussolini? I bet even Iran has that data now. Might come in real handy in a Nuke War.
“CONFIRMED: That Chinese Spy Balloon Made Fools of the Biden Administration”
CONFIRMED: The Chinese, Russian, Iranian, North Korean and even Mexican governments made fools of the Biden Administration
There, fixed it
And half of Washington DC....
No one ever makes anyone else look like a fool. The fool does it himself.
Why would you expect NBC to do anything other than make crappola up? Sure, they are not CNN, but they are still spewing propaganda from the WHouse.
Having done Minuteman III maintenance for 9 years I find this statement to be a little speculative. A Radio Shack scanner could do the same thing without the visibility.
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