The Chinese Spy Balloon

[Brians356]

Too high to shoot down????

Didn't WE, not too long ago, send up a Fighter Jet, high enough (to the edge of space) SHOOT DOWN an Asteroid or an old Satellite (??) with a Rocket before it hit our Earth???

"On 14 December 1959, USAF Captain Joe B. Jordan, flying F-104C 56–0885 at Edwards AFB, set a new world altitude record of 103,389 feet (31,513 m), in the process becoming the first aircraft to take off under its own power and cross both the 30,000-meter and 100,000-foot thresholds."

Been there; done that; got the tee-shirt.
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[Kracken McGraw]

I just learned about this last week from my mechanic! He used to do heavy truck repair and his shop would turn down any 'turbans' because when they crapped out the hole in cab floor stuff would get splattered all over the undercarriage. Now i know and wont follow trucks so close on the freeway!

I see them now at the Stops now with murals of them painted on their trucks holding Ak-47‘s or such. Just saying this ain’t the America we grew up in.

 

[Brians356]

DONE.....

An eyewitness says a missile from an aircraft done it.
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[markT]

Now level Wuhan lab!!

 

[Brians356]

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[Edd]

All the information it collected is already in China.

It should have been downed on the other side of the USA.

 

[BlueWater]

Why do you think the Taiwanese are poopin themselves!! No matter what, China will unleash hellfire before the US gets around to debating how to react, if we even react militarily.

Yup. If this past couple of days has shown nothing else, it will have given potential adversaries an idea the U.S. might well not have the focus, mentality, nor stomach to jump on a such problem ... let alone a big problem.

Of course, Taiwan is Taiwan's problem, when it comes right to it. If they want themselves to have the ability to withstand invasion, they'd better damned well hop to it. I suspect they don't, currently, not with the numbers (off all ordnance+people) that China can bring. Rough little island to invade, if there were much in the interior to bother with, except for each the big cities along the coastline and Taipei itself.

 

[markT]

 

[BlueWater]

All the information it collected is already in China.

It made it all the way across the country, apparently. Not a wimper, not a lifted finger. Even if it's "smoked" now, mission's been accomplished. Both of them. Showing simpering fools for what they are, and gathering whatever the unknown thing-a-mabob might have gathered so far.

If for no other reason, they need to get it, evaluate the thing, and determine what (if anything) the thing captured and communicated. The time for dithering is long past.

 

[MSS]

So we let the balloon accomplish its mission and then shot it down. Super.

 

[markT]

Time to fire up the Hunley..

 

[SEM]

day late and dollar short Joe done it again

 

[rijndael]

This was the expected outcome if you think we have politicians owned by the Chinese. This is their attempt at saving face, because they had to do something, all while helping the Chinese get what they wanted/needed ... intel that couldn't easily be leaked through their normal channels.

 

[topclass2017]

so the eunuch-in-chief finally gives his approval to down the balloon. Isn't it a little too late? Isn't it like closing the barn door after the cow gets out? Wouldn't better timing have been when it first entered US airspace BEFORE it spent the better part of the week collecting who know's what data? The CCP got what they wanted - a timid, untimely response and unchallenged data collection. At the point of its destruction the balloon was an obsolete asset that had done its job. While I agree with downing it, it is no different than sinking an obsolete, retired warship as gunnery practice.

 

[JumboSammich]

Shot down with a 6.5 Creedmore I presume?

 

[Bill Norris]

Shot down with a 6.5 Creedmore I presume?

Why yes, No doubt about it. Hornady is happy.

 

[markT]

After looking at the video I think the shot was low.

 

[LHSmith]

Shot down with a 6.5 Creedmore I presume?

20 mm cannon is what I heard reported.

 

[Bill Norris]

After looking at the video I think the shot was low.

Can u post a link to the video Please

 

[markT]

Can u post a link to the video Please

Flip on Fox News. It appears to me ( old eyes) the “sensor package” separated from inflation material. But could be a normal occurrence with receiving the impact from the 6.5 CM.