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Old 02-05-2023, 02:11 PM   #61
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Maybe we'll never know how much of a threat the china spy balloon was. Perhaps it was just a weather balloon.
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Old 02-05-2023, 02:52 PM   #62
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The us has the capability to jam any electronic transmissions to/from this balloon. As usual, we are not getting the whole story here.
AT 60,000 feet? are you sure?
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Old 02-05-2023, 03:16 PM   #63
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We need a better ballloon!
That is good look for America... but.

This is more appropriate for the Briben Administration.
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Old 02-05-2023, 03:35 PM   #64
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AT 60,000 feet? are you sure?
Mostpost says we can so it must be true.
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Old 02-05-2023, 05:06 PM   #65
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We should get spme balloons of our own up over china.....filled with radioactive waste.
I believe nothing our government has told us on these balloons, not sure that it was not our balloon from the get go.
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Old 02-05-2023, 07:55 PM   #66
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Why not just shoot a hole in it, I think a F-22 has a 20mm gun, that is a little over 3/4" for those not versed in metric.
because a $400000 missile provides a higher probability of success.
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Old 02-06-2023, 01:03 PM   #68
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Stop worrying. All is well.
No secrets were revesled, mo data was sent back to china.
Our military had it covered all alongg, they let it keep going for a week to clooect information on how it functioned.

Our generals say so.
50 Intelligence agents are preparing a letter to sign to that effect.

Now settlw down, kwitcher bitin'...Uncle Sugar has you covered.
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Old 02-06-2023, 01:03 PM   #69
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Sizing up a prospective foe accurately demands more than tallying up ships, planes, or tanks, or estimating industrial capacity. It involves fathoming intangibles relating to that foe’s culture and society.

Here’s how the balloon sightings may fit into China’s three-warfares offensive. Suppose you’re Beijing and you want to design strategies and tactics for deterring or coercing the United States, your major opponent. You need to find out how that opponent responds to external stimuli.

So you test its reflexes. You do zany-seeming things like sending lighter-than-air craft into U.S. airspace, in full view of people on the ground. And you gauge their response.

If they overreact to an incursion that poses no direct threat, you’ve learned something. Namely that you can strike a cultural nerve by getting in Americans’ faces. Ordinary folk seem largely indifferent to such worrisome developments as the People’s Liberation Army’s constructing anti-access sensors and weaponry specifically to kill American soldiers, sailors, and aviators in large numbers. Out of sight, out of mind.

But when an unarmed foreign aircraft appears over the North American heartland . . . OMG!

The balloon sightings had strategic import, then. Deterrence or coercion involves threatening something an adversary holds dear, and then convincing the adversary you can and will make good on the threat if its leadership defies you.
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Biden says this a lot of malarky.
The balloon was just transient.
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Old 02-07-2023, 11:08 AM   #71
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I have seen pictures of the ships looking for debris in the ocean. I wonder how many weeks they will search for stuff 40 feet under the surface.

Is this a practice exercise or has the woke military lost all idea of efficiency when deciding it would be much safer downing over ocean?


How come if Briben wanted the balloon shot down, it took so long to do so? Was he listening to the generals now after his Afghanistan crapshow?
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Old 02-10-2023, 10:54 AM   #72
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So, the balloon was monitoring communications across all of these states. Was able to get locations of these communications. Your government just gave them an idea of what would happen with the citizens if they attacked the U.S.A. Very valuable information, and our President thinks this is no big deal.
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So, the balloon was monitoring communications across all of these states. Was able to get locations of these communications. Your government just gave them an idea of what would happen with the citizens if they attacked the U.S.A. Very valuable information, and our President thinks this is no big deal.
But how can this be? We were told the balloon couldn't get much more information than a satellite could get. It wasn't a big deal.
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