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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Did they recover the remains to verify what sort of photography and transmission equipment the balloon was armed with?
The Chinese are not stupid - but our woke leaders are. I will never buy the excuse that "they couldn't shoot it down because it might fall on someone" About 97% percent of the USA is completely unoccupied and there was very little danger that it would've landed on anyone if it was destroyed over the northwest portion of our country.
Way to late...Shame on Biden.....Biteme will brag about his decisive action at the state of the union yet he FAILED to protect the American people. #WorstPresidentEver
Wonder if they’ll be a whole bunch of new cases of the “Suddenlies” in South Carolina?
I suspect Seals are on that right now.
How you gonna jam a directional UHF signal aimed at a geosynchronous satellite? Duh.
For the first time in my life I can finally say I’m proud to be an American.
Where was Nena?
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I know how we can stop this. Trump could just announce “No more balloons.”
Oops. Forgot. He’s not president anymore.
The damn payload self destructed. It separated from the balloon after it was hit and you can see a series of small flashes a few seconds later as the individual components were detonated.
"I can't imagine this balloon saw anything that these satellites haven't already seen.Maybe, perhaps, it actually was a weather balloon duhhh hurhhh durhhhh droooool."
No.
"Just because the Chinese lie most of the time doesn't mean they lie all of the time."
Yes, they do, droop. The 2 greatest enemies to the United States are -- not by chance -- the two uncivilizations that not only have no punishment for lying, but have devolved to make lying preferable.
Confucianism endorses lying to save face zuo mianzi.
Islam endorses lying to any non-slime taqiyya.
You forgot about Corn Pop
I don’t feel like giving the CCP or its military one iota of a benefit of a doubt.
Some of their hardware shows up over our airspace- shoot it down with extreme prejudice.
I have no quarrel with the Chinese people, just their government.
And DAMN the politicians-living and dead-who made us so dependent on them.
“. I’m confident it’ll be recovered. We’ve got plenty of Navy assets operating in the area.”
I’m confident the public will be lied to about what they find.
All the evidence goes to the bottom of the ocean. Red Chinese subs will soon start their 10-month trip from China across the Pacific Ocean, down around the tip of South America and up to the point where it was shot down. They will then look for their spy camera that took photos of Disney World in Florida.
I believe one of the DOD guys did say yesterday that the surveillance capacity had been neutralized...
Hopefully some useful debris can be collected.
I’m not sure anything embarrasses him.
Damn straight!
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