China balloon & Airship Development
- Thread starter escobar
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I think overall this whole saga opens up interesting scenario for China. Due to the low cost to operate those balloons China can probably maintain a line of them across the entire Pacific and it will cost disporportional amount of resources for the US to shoot them all down. Essentially a cheaper and less survivable satellite.
Is it really China or is it SDF again?
broadsword
Brigadier
Balloon diplomacy will replace panda diplomacy. Whoever catches the balloon will earn a trip to China.
I mean, even from that article itself China was trolling with the balloons long before the current incident.
US carriers will have no chance against balloon launched HGVs.
US carriers will have no chance against balloon launched HGVs.
Sino-Shahed balloons? Unlimited range, 3000 km range from firing point with gliding, 20k cost. launch 10k of these on a route, self location and target identification requires only knowing self coordinates and fixed coordinates, firing triggered by satellite or auto...
