In November, 700 Intercontinental Weapons Were Launched Against the USA?

Geeze Bob, don't confuse them with facts.
Facts don't matter when your warped mind is already made up.

 

Could be Xi is in some small trouble over his handling of covid so needs a provocative act for internal political purposes. Nut not too provocative...

 

Diversion/deflection can be a very effective political strategy sometimes.
Unfortunately.

 

Concerning lighter-than-air programs:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/41462/gigantic-hangar-near-secretive-chinese-test-facilities-points-to-exotic-airship-development

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Last view structures under lifting bag. What could it do?

 

u.s. shoots down chinese spy balloon:

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i guess the teenager couldn't stand any more goading, must have been a double dare

 

Or somebody said "let's wait 'til it's over water, then we can bring it down without beaning our own people, then maybe have a look."

The kind of thing hormonal reactions don't always leave time for.

 

played right into xi xi's hands

 

On some considerations involved in shooting it down

On guaranteed-effective ways of not shooting it down

 

they should have asked elon what to do

 

And to compare it to the previous Adminstration?

"SHOOT DOWN THE BALLOON!" Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth.
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"3 Chinese spy balloons flew over United States during Trump administration, defense official says"

Did P45 ever tell us about shooting down the balloons that crossed during his term?

 

Who is laughing?

Sounds like it. My time taught me the same first lesson. Now we have a bunch of grumpy old men complaining about everything.

100%

 

Which is exactly what they ended up doing.
Also might incur less damage from landing in water.
But it sounds like they think it will be in lots of pieces even there.

 

I wonder if this was chinas way of saying we’re not interested in diplomacy

 

My understanding is there were three previous balloons that were not reported or attacked at the time. Next time, China just needs to file a flight report with the countries they overfly.

My first thought is to dust off the old SR-71 but on further reflection a very low orbit satellite would be even better. Just do a low pass and reenter like the XB-37:


Bob Wilson

 

maybe just drift a balloon over their airspace to compare reactions

 

The question is where do we launch it from? Has to be sort of west of China.

 

what do we learn from their reaction to that?

 

we won't know until we know.

 

Probably best to begin every experiment with "what do I expect to learn from this, and what would each foreseeable result actually tell me?".

I'm pretty sure every country that actively experiments on us is thinking things through like that, so we're not playing on their level if we don't.