The bizarre secret behind China's spy balloon
www.cbsnews.com
Earlier this year America's military defenses were put on notice against a Chinese balloon believed to be on an espionage mission. Gen. Mark Milley talks about what we've learned from an examination of the balloon's wreckage.

Nobody could have predicted this. I have my doubts even when they call it “spying equipment” or whatever considering Chinese claim it was a meteorological balloon, certainly no doubt they would try to paint those tools as such.

  • at_an_angleEnglish
    1•10 months ago

    Scared by Chinese junk? Nah, blowing it up with a missle was just cool.

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    • Maoo [none/use name]English
      7•10 months ago

      Burning $400k on blowing up a weather bslloon is an extremely not-scared thing to celebrate.

      • at_an_angleEnglish
        1•10 months ago

        “You can fill a balloon full of bullet holes, and it’s going to stay at altitude,” David Deptula, a retired Air Force lieutenant general and fighter pilot, tells the Post. The air pressure that high up doesn’t allow helium to freely escape through small holes, even if fighter jets flying by at hundreds of miles per hour can riddle the near-stationary balloon with bullets.

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