China balloon & Airship Development
- Thread starter escobar
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Is this balloon from China?
Reuters said on 4 Feb that it was Aerostar’s balloon.
Bloomberg said on 3 Feb that it was Aerostar’s balloon.
Ian Petchenik said on 4 Feb that it was his balloon.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
New life hack to get a spectacular fireworks display on the cheap.
Its almost like every country spies other countries. Leave it to the Americans to pretend that they are shocked by this revelation. Bunch of drama queens
According to latest Guanqi today, the recent 3 balloon/UFO shoot down results in many urgent meetings in China as different organizations who normally release balloons meet up to make sure it's not one of theirs. The conclusion is that none of the last 3 came from China and they feel there's at least high probability that some of them belonged to the US.
The theory is dove faction within US government may be encouraging such actions so that eventually when the word get out that USAF have been shooting down US balloons it discredit the hawks and their overreaction.
Still no official word about the object in Yellow Sea. According to rumors on weibo it was an UAV and it was downed with surface to air missile.
The theory is dove faction within US government may be encouraging such actions so that eventually when the word get out that USAF have been shooting down US balloons it discredit the hawks and their overreaction.
Still no official word about the object in Yellow Sea. According to rumors on weibo it was an UAV and it was downed with surface to air missile.
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plawolf
Lieutenant General
No, it’s more like basic physics means you have limited control over non-powered research balloons, and those things just fly with the wind. Which is mainly their whole point in helping to measure and map global meteorological conditions and patterns.
Before, everyone was sensible about such overflights when they happened and accepted it as an unavoidable part of reality, and because everyone was being mature and reasonable, there was no need or reason to update a decades old treaty to keep the balloon dimensions in line with modern research balloon sizes.
As usual, the lawfare warriors in the US stops thinking as soon as they find some obscure clause they can twist to their advantage and doesn’t stop to think about the possibility of reciprocity.
So the US invents a crisis out of thin air and shoots down a Chinese research balloon to distract from other bad stories, and China said, fine, two can play at that game, and here we are with everyone shooting at balloons for no real reason.
escobar
Brigadier
Interesting, sort of starlink/starshield balloons network
Professor Wu and his team either launched or planned to launch three high-altitude balloons in the air at the same time to form an “airborne network.” The ultimate goal, the company said, was to create an airborne signals network in China using stationary balloons floating at least 80,000 feet high. It likened the planned network to Starlink,
Professor Wu and his team either launched or planned to launch three high-altitude balloons in the air at the same time to form an “airborne network.” The ultimate goal, the company said, was to create an airborne signals network in China using stationary balloons floating at least 80,000 feet high. It likened the planned network to Starlink,
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Google planned this a decade ago, the project called ProjectLoon.
But they shut down the project in 2021 due to some reasons.
I think one of the reasons must be the incident happened several days ago.
It's a FFFing joke really.
They expect the public to believe suddenly we have a Chinese UFO problem?
They are already stoking the public fear, if they had the Chinese spy equipment, they would reveal it, much in the way the USSR revealed their capture of Francis Gary Powers.
I will tell you the Canadian government's rationale. The current government recently flip flopped on buying the F-35 (after cancelling the purchase 6 years ago). They will use these UFO as a rationale to build the case that the "threat environment has changed".
Using normal logic...
The U2 Plane is rarely used now because they say satellites can do most of the job and more safely. China, with the 2nd best space program in the world, cannot do the same?
Apparently balloons have several advantages over satellites, but somehow only China figured this out recently?
Finally, the allegation is that China has this program going for years, but only NOW it is a problem?
When nothing makes sense, there is a word for it... nonsense...