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Originally Posted by bat119
Harder to shoot down than one would think
In 1998 Two Canadian CF-18 fighter jets caught up with the balloon off the coast of Newfoundland and took aim, firing more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition at it.
But the balloon survived the assault, soldiering on over the North Atlantic.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/wea...hina-1.6737831
fired a 1000 rounds but did they hit it?
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One of the first things they learned during WWl was how difficult it was to shoot balloons down with bullets, until they invented incendiary ammunition. Difference now being we use non flammable helium.
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02-05-2023, 03:13 PM
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Pop 2 more and win a stuffed animal made in China
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An awful lot of big game was killed with the .30-06 including the big bears before everyone became affluent enough to own a rifle for every species of game they might hunt.
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02-05-2023, 03:24 PM
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"let loose the balloons, the Covid-pandemic is over"
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02-05-2023, 04:43 PM
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Originally Posted by big_plinker
This has been proven as disinformation, or fake news as the big orange haired buffoon so accurately called it all so many years ago.
The fact that every news station in the land ran with it, though, is what's really news, or not, to anyone that's been paying even the littlest bit of attention.
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Well crap, I see that now. It never showed up in my news feed on twitter before and I don't follow just the MSM stuff either. They got me the buggers.
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02-05-2023, 05:10 PM
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Pop 2 more and win a stuffed animal made in China
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I laughed out loud
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02-05-2023, 05:32 PM
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I read news daily from a few sources, almost religiously. Read today. This thread is the first I hear about the three balloons. I must be doing something wrong.
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I'd say you're doing something right.
As the man said, watching the news, you're either uninformed or you're misinformed.
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02-05-2023, 07:26 PM
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Pop 2 more and win a stuffed animal made in China
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Bahaha
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02-05-2023, 09:30 PM
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Heard that three flew over the US during Trumps tenure and they did. I thing about it. Wonder why they finally took action.
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02-05-2023, 09:39 PM
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Balloon
If the balloon was carrying any dangerous or sensitive equipment it would have been designed to self-destruct as soon as it came down to 30,000 ft. There would be nothing to investigate.
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02-05-2023, 11:21 PM
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What's to see, really? Is the US working on the successor to the Abrams, direct energy weapons, AI robots, etc., outside in the open?
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02-06-2023, 04:02 AM
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02-06-2023, 07:12 AM
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02-06-2023, 08:04 AM
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There ya go! One down…. Lol
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An awful lot of big game was killed with the .30-06 including the big bears before everyone became affluent enough to own a rifle for every species of game they might hunt.
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02-06-2023, 08:44 AM
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And just like that, we will hear about this damned balloon for the next week or more, while all the other issues are placed on the back burner.
We have seen this rodeo before...
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As I previously said.
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02-06-2023, 08:53 AM
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02-06-2023, 09:55 AM
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Not quite the same as when Obama came on the news and announced on May 1, 2011 to the world that Bin Laden had been killed and dumped in the sea.
I guess this would be Biden's moment of military fame. We got the balloon!
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02-06-2023, 02:15 PM
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So modern weather balloons like this can be landed on command. Why wouldn't the Chinese have landed it in the Pacific once they knew it had gone rogue?
Instead, they let it float for several days instead of getting ahead of the story and letting at least the Americans know it had gone rogue and was heading their way? Looks pretty staged from here.
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02-06-2023, 02:43 PM
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In regards to my previous post about difficulties detecting these, apparently giant, aircrafts. And yes, apparently there were at least three more under the orange man and another previously under Biden.
Reuters: U.S. failed to detect past Chinese spy balloons, Air Force general says
A senior U.S. general responsible for bringing down a Chinese spy balloon said on Monday the military had not detected previous spy balloons before the one that appeared on Jan. 28 over the United States and called it an "awareness gap."
The Pentagon said over the weekend that Chinese spy balloons had briefly flown over the United States at least three times during President Donald Trump's administration and one previously under President Joe Biden.
Air Force General Glen VanHerck, head of U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command and Northern Command, said the latest balloon was 200 feet (60 meters) tall and the payload under it weighed a couple thousand pounds.
He did not provide details on previous balloons, including where over the United States they flew.
"I will tell you that we did not detect those threats, and that's a domain awareness gap," VanHerck said.
VanHerck added that U.S. intelligence determined the previous flights after the fact based on "additional means of collection" of intelligence without offering further details on whether that might be cyber espionage, telephone intercepts or human sources.
Senior U.S. officials have offered to brief individuals from the previous administration on the details of previous balloons overflights when Trump was president.
Republican Representative Michael Waltz, who serves on the House of Representatives intelligence committee, said on Sunday that the Pentagon had told him that several Chinese balloon incidents had happened over the past few years, including over Florida. […]
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02-06-2023, 02:47 PM
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This is ballooning out of control.
I hope they shoot them all down as soon as they enter us air space.
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02-06-2023, 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Sundancefisher
Heard that three flew over the US during Trumps tenure and they did. I thing about it. Wonder why they finally took action.
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Who did you hear that from Santa clause ?
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02-06-2023, 04:19 PM
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^ Well, as quoted above, Air Force General Glen VanHerck, head of U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command and Northern Command.
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02-06-2023, 05:19 PM
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Originally Posted by fishnguy
^ Well, as quoted above, Air Force General Glen VanHerck, head of U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command and Northern Command.
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Then if the military/intelligence community knew about it, why didnt they brief the cabinet?
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02-06-2023, 05:47 PM
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Too soon?
The US has decided upon a reprisal to the incursion by China.
In other news, the US military has implemented a new training regimen designed to thwart future incursions.
https://imgur.com/gallery/PbGYv7o
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02-06-2023, 06:17 PM
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Coming from CNN, and assuming it is true... why wasn't it shot down when it flew over Canada? Norad confirmed that fact...
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That's what I'm wanting to know-sheesh!
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02-06-2023, 06:34 PM
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^ Well, as quoted above, Air Force General Glen VanHerck, head of U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command and Northern Command.
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I didn't know Santa clause wore a service uniform.
Wow took them that many years to detect 3 balloons. Thats almost more embarrassing than how long it took O'Biden to react to this one.
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02-06-2023, 07:39 PM
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That's what I'm wanting to know-sheesh!
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02-06-2023, 10:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Phil McCracken View Post
Coming from CNN, and assuming it is true...why wasn't it shot down when it flew over Canada? Norad confirmed that fact...
Facts are that the Canadian air farce has no such aircraft that are able to intercept targets that high. Another feather in the bonnet of Turd'o 1 and his son. Planes that may have been able to do something were canceled under the former Liberals rein. But hey nothing to see here back to popcorn and netflicks...
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02-06-2023, 11:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Sundancefisher
Heard that three flew over the US during Trumps tenure and they did. I thing about it. Wonder why they finally took action.
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I believe Tucker has the answers you seek.
https://youtu.be/sSwV7li-duQ
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Notice no one is talking about Joe Biden's classified documents! and his squeaky-clean son Hunters laptop anymore.
You would think the masses would catch on to the play book.
It's sad what these people have turned the so-called free world into.
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