It seems another object is going to be shot down. This would be the fourth after the initial balloon, and the two small cylindrical aircraft shot down over Alaska and northern Canada, the Canadian shoot down being today aswell.
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It's a worldwide pandemic ! Damn escaped ballon were flying for decades and no one cares. Now it's like an alien invasion. I could see people buying balloon, attach a small payload with solar panel and a camera just to make a joke of the system and film some missiles arrivals.
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China have shot down balloons for years, just don't talk about it most of the time.
But "thanks" to the US, game season is on.
Exactly... it still give some nice training for pilots but don't need all the media hysteria.
Those balloon belongs to who, usually? Mostly done as training, or real-incident interception?
Blog entry from obviously pro Russian Intel Slava. They don't just cover Ukraine war developments. The post suggests reasons why the US is freaking out.
“My theory about the airspace closures and intercepts is that the DoD cracked open that first Chinese balloon and found sensory capabilities that really freaked them out, so now they are being hyper-vigilant about any and all radar anomalies.”
Comment: The USAF pilots who intercepted the one shot down over Alaska said the object inferred with their sensors and the object itself was initially undetected by Radar. Apparently the one over Montana has been doing the same, so this does seem a valid theory.
If PLAAF tech is such that even balloons can go undetected by and mess with the electronics on an F-22, that’s an extremely ominous sign for the U.S. in the case of a Taiwan War where the J-20s get deployed…
“My theory about the airspace closures and intercepts is that the DoD cracked open that first Chinese balloon and found sensory capabilities that really freaked them out, so now they are being hyper-vigilant about any and all radar anomalies.”
Comment: The USAF pilots who intercepted the one shot down over Alaska said the object inferred with their sensors and the object itself was initially undetected by Radar. Apparently the one over Montana has been doing the same, so this does seem a valid theory.
If PLAAF tech is such that even balloons can go undetected by and mess with the electronics on an F-22, that’s an extremely ominous sign for the U.S. in the case of a Taiwan War where the J-20s get deployed…
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