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US military shoots down Chinese spy balloon over Atlantic Ocean
Fox News ^ | February 4, 2023 2:39pm EST | Adam Sabes

Posted on 02/04/2023 11:47:11 AM PST by conservative98

The U.S. military has shot down the Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic Ocean.

While the balloon was off the coast of South Carolina, the balloon was shot down by the U.S. military on Saturday afternoon, according to Fox News sources

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: atlantic; balloon; china; chinese; goooh; letsgobrandon; q; r; russia; shot; spartansixdelta; spy; spyballoon; usmilitary
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To: 1Old Pro
Biden said he ordered it shot down Wednesday, why not over Alaska???? Did he just wake up from his nap..

Probably his morning crap.

201 posted on 02/04/2023 4:29:35 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: conservative98

Thank GOD we are safe now!!!!

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/united-states-considering-plan-to-down-chinese-balloon-over-atlantic_n_63de9b98e4b01a436394c696


202 posted on 02/04/2023 5:05:49 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: StAnDeliver

60,000 feet?


203 posted on 02/04/2023 5:14:39 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: toddausauras

Yep, Biden got permission from the Chicoms to shoot it down after its mission was accomplished.


204 posted on 02/04/2023 5:16:16 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Blacks have placed stronger chains on themselves than the slave masters of old ever forged.)
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To: StAnDeliver
F-22A 

General characteristics
Primary function: air dominance, multi-role fighter
Contractor: Lockheed-Martin, Boeing
Power plant: two Pratt & Whitney F119-PW-100 turbofan engines with afterburners and two-dimensional thrust vectoring nozzles.
Thrust: 35,000-pound class (each engine)
Wingspan: 44 feet, 6 inches (13.6 meters)
Length: 62 feet, 1 inch (18.9 meters)
Height: 16 feet, 8 inches (5.1 meters)
Weight: 43,340 pounds (19,700 kilograms)  
Maximum takeoff weight: 83,500 pounds (38,000 kilograms)  
Fuel capacity: internal: 18,000 pounds (8,200 kilograms); with 2 external wing fuel tanks: 26,000 pounds (11,900 kilograms)
Payload: same as armament air-to-air or air-to-ground loadouts; with or without two external wing fuel tanks.
Speed:  mach two class with supercruise capability
Range: more than 1,850 miles ferry range with two external wing fuel tanks (1,600 nautical miles)


Ceiling: above 50,000 feet (15 kilometers)


Armament: one M61A2 20-millimeter cannon with 480 rounds, internal side weapon bays carriage of two AIM-9 infrared (heat seeking) air-to-air missiles and internal main weapon bays carriage of six AIM-120 radar-guided air-to-air missiles (air-to-air loadout) or two 1,000-pound GBU-32 JDAMs and two AIM-120 radar-guided air-to-air missiles (air-to-ground loadout)
Crew: one
Unit cost: $143 million
Initial operating capability:  December 2005
Inventory: total force, 183

 (Current as of August 2022)

205 posted on 02/04/2023 5:17:51 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: conservative98
HT: Monty Python
206 posted on 02/04/2023 5:23:15 PM PST by CDB
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To: toddausauras

207 posted on 02/04/2023 5:26:12 PM PST by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads and Grumpy Grandads.)
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To: Peter ODonnell
"Maybe it was just a psy-op event."

Perhaps Xi was sending a not so subtle reminder that if the US interferes in China's affairs (eg South China Sea and Taiwan), they can interfere in ours.

208 posted on 02/04/2023 5:35:36 PM PST by buckalfa (The older I become, the more clearly I remember things that never happend ~~ Samuel Clemens)
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209 posted on 02/04/2023 5:40:07 PM PST by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads and Grumpy Grandads.)
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To: USA-FRANCE
Chinese Virus” was being considered highly racist (but only after Trump said it)

Yeah DJT created the Space Force...

Seems to me the Space Force would have captured it.

210 posted on 02/04/2023 5:50:52 PM PST by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads and Grumpy Grandads.)
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To: Irenic

Yep. I’m as suspicious as heck. I don’t believe a word they tell me.


211 posted on 02/04/2023 6:09:22 PM PST by piusv (Francis didn't start the Fire)
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To: conservative98

The US military has had its day!!!
We shot an unmanned, unarmed, f’n BALLOON down after 2 weeks of gathering
intelligence over our country.
Confidence inspiring to be sure.


212 posted on 02/04/2023 6:19:12 PM PST by Palio di Siena
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To: conservative98

So Biden eliminated the evidence.


213 posted on 02/04/2023 7:59:45 PM PST by Maelstrom (To prevent misinterpretation or abuse of the Constitution:The Bill of Rights limits government power)
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To: Blue Highway

Heheh - you need to follow the NWS forecast discussions where they talk about upper level winds.


214 posted on 02/04/2023 8:05:29 PM PST by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: toddausauras

Exactly! Now he looks like a hero to his sheep.


215 posted on 02/04/2023 8:08:20 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (D.I.S.T.R.A.C.T.I.O.N.S.)
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To: Texan4Life

Great vid! I also enjoyed the vid with the plane closing in and then the dual contrails as the missile sped ahead and took out the balloon.

For our missile experts:

Are we seeing a directed proximity blast? Basically a narrow cone of shrapnel blasted toward the balloon to shred it?


216 posted on 02/04/2023 8:18:12 PM PST by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: piusv

dittos... I think COVID and elections killed off any trust I had left.


217 posted on 02/04/2023 8:45:51 PM PST by Irenic
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To: matthew fuller

One of the TV reports showed it as launching in NW China, it went over Japan, (maybe just barely caught southernmost S. Korea), looped up to Alaska and back down through Canada, then through the US.

Lots of tracks over the USA got posted online, but I’ve not tried to figure out which were “predicted” and which were actual.


218 posted on 02/04/2023 9:25:58 PM PST by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: oldvirginian

“We’ll be lucky to live through it.”

Say your prayers...ON STEROIDS!


219 posted on 02/04/2023 10:59:49 PM PST by lizma2
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To: HKMk23

Will we see proof that the China “weather” balloon had cameras aboard?

Was the $400,000 missile targeted to the balloon, or to the array under the balloon?

A balloon up that high seems like a good place for a Tom Cruise character to latch onto...


220 posted on 02/04/2023 11:18:39 PM PST by Texan4Life
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