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F-22 Safely Shoots Down Chinese Spy Balloon Off South Carolina Coast [.mil website- New source]
https://www.spaceforce.mil/News/Article/3288599/f-22-safely-shoots-down-chinese-spy-balloon-off-south-carolina-coast/ ^
| 2/4/2023
| Jim Garamone
Posted on 02/14/2023 4:27:30 AM PST by Blueflag
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To: The Great RJ
That to me is the real threat: the ability to drop a physical payload (or several) of a bio-weapon, or even something persistent like Plutonium (and similar).
Kill crops, livestock, people and deny the area for use for years.
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posted on
02/14/2023 7:45:03 AM PST
by
Blueflag
(Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
To: Blueflag
It took thousands of Chinamen to blow it up but only one AMERICAN F-22 Raptor to knock it down.
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posted on
02/14/2023 7:49:14 AM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Remember what FJB Brandon said, "...more than half of the women in my administration are women.")
To: RoosterRedux
Exactly... And the whole “we’re adjusting our radars to pick these up” is pure BS.
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posted on
02/14/2023 8:03:51 AM PST
by
maddog55
(The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
To: EQAndyBuzz
Don’t forget your high altitude gear.
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posted on
02/14/2023 11:34:01 AM PST
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GingisK
To: nuconvert
The balloon itself was most like invisible to radar. Radar can’t see anything that it can pass through without reflections.
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posted on
02/14/2023 11:35:14 AM PST
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GingisK
To: GingisK
We learned yesterday that it was tracked by our military off Guam and knew exactly when it left China, so it wasn’t invisible.
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posted on
02/16/2023 6:32:33 AM PST
by
nuconvert
( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
To: nuconvert
The balloon itself is probably invisible; however, NORAD once claimed that it could spot something the size of a .22 caliber bullet coming over the horizon.
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posted on
02/16/2023 7:44:49 AM PST
by
GingisK
To: GingisK
I think the point is, they saw it waaaay before it got to Alaska.
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posted on
02/16/2023 7:46:59 AM PST
by
nuconvert
( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
To: nuconvert
Yeah, I am sure they did. They probably have an agreement that allows them to do so. That is why Biden let it pass unmolested across the entire Nation. The more recent ones are for show.
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02/16/2023 8:20:21 AM PST
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GingisK
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