[ETCM]

WHERE’S THE GANTRY???

Parts of it are right in the pictures provided. It looks like it was a framework of carbon fiber or some other lightweight tubes. Based on the video of the shoot down, the payload was impacted and smashed by the missile. Seems like it would have been more prudent to hit the balloon and leave the payload more intact for recovery.

[Chode]

from the videos i’ve seen, there was a circular connecting section between the balloon and the actual scaffold holding the instruments, and THAT, from what i’ve seen is where missile hit and detached the entire surveillance package

you can see it fall away...

i think that’s the interconnecting structure

but i can understand them not showing better pix 8^)

i just want to know they went down and got it

[Chode]

what bothers me is they had a rough idea where they were going to down the balloon, why the Navy wasn’t there circling the area wi ships and helos like in days of old when retrieving the capsules back in the day is beyond me

the whole thing stinks

[Iron Munro]

Seems like it would have been more prudent to hit the balloon and leave the payload more intact for recovery.

Not if your orders were to destroy the instrument package to cover up for the Chinese and the Chinese puppets in the White House.

[Bob Ireland]

***It looks like it was a framework of carbon fiber or some other lightweight tubes. Based on the video of the shoot down, the payload was impacted and smashed by the missile. Seems like it would have been more prudent to hit the balloon and leave the payload more intact for recovery***

That frame can carry hypersonic 'glide' missiles - a FIRST STRIKE weapon!