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daifo

daifo

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I think if it was a accidental uncontrolled balloon, we will see it go over the ocean at similar or lower altitude and the US possibly attempt to shoot at it. If it is controlled, it will prob rise up further to escape any potential attempts at being shot at before going over the ocean.
 
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Biscuits

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escobar said:
That makes sense. Hope the payload have some manner of self destruct capability onboard
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more likely it just doesnt have many valuable components on it. It was clearly made for 1 way trip. The the biggest flex of it is how smart the method itself is for bypassing air defense, as well as the maneuver capability.

unless it carries some form of breakthrough tech, its unlikely that it has many more days of endurance to go. The only country it could feasibly be recovered in that region would be Cuba, but that seems rather unlikely. It'd also be unlikely if the balloon can go all the way back to Asia.
 
eprash

eprash

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escobar said:
Moving towards North Carolina; It will be off the coast in 4 hours.
Apparently the solar panels rotated to follow the sun
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As usual leave it to Americans to blow up a small issue, China's official stance was right all along Just a routine meteorological data gathering operationFoIGopcWAAMtbjB.jpeg
Similar balloon seen in Sendai Japan 2 years ago at least Japanese had the decency to not claim it as spy balloon
 
AssassinsMace

AssassinsMace

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What's up with a giant balloon being able to evade detection? The US didn't know about this balloon until it was reported visually by civilian aircraft when it was over the US. I read somewhere that Japan asked the US if it flew over their country. And on cable news they have to talk about the backwardness and why need a balloon when satellites can do the same job? I see an answer in there. Something that is cheap and they can't detect it...?

Remember those pictures of various Chinese hypersonic mockup designs hanging from a carriage hanging from a balloon? Have these floating over the Pacific waiting for enemy ships to come into range. You're going to be able to detect radar before they get close enough to read the bounce-back signal. I was watching CNN and they had a former General being interviewed saying the surveillance technology hanging from the balloon must weigh in the tons. How many suicide drones can it carry? Launch the balloon at night and it would be loitering over Taiwan before sun-up. No chance of spotting it. You know how paranoid Taiwan would be if hundreds of balloon decoys were coming at them that that they would have use up missiles shooting them down?
 
sheogorath

sheogorath

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Biscuits said:
more likely it just doesnt have many valuable components on it. It was clearly made for 1 way trip. The the biggest flex of it is how smart the method itself is for bypassing air defense, as well as the maneuver capability.
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Bet you they will still put on a show of how they now have access to high tech stuff from China and whatnot. A reverse version of what the Ukranians tried to pull with the Orlans
 
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