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Posted: 2/17/2023 10:25:56 AM EDT
[#1]
$300k missile to shoot down a legal, hobby $180 balloon.
Top men/women/trannies ETA: 99 red balloons Floating in the summer sky Panic bells, it's red alert There's something here from somewhere else The war machine springs to life Opens up one eager eye Focusing it on the sky The 99 red balloons go by 99 Decision Street 99 ministers meet To worry, worry, super scurry Call the troops out in a hurry This is what we've waited for This is it boys, this is war The President is on the line As 99 red balloons go by 99 knights of the air Ride super high-tech jet fighters Everyone's a superhero Everyone's a Captain Kirk With orders to identify To clarify and classify Scrambling the summer sky 99 red balloons go by |
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Posted: 2/17/2023 10:37:26 AM EDT
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I called it back on the 10th and was mocked for it. Even named the station call-sign.
https://www.ar15.com/forums/general/New-Chinese-Spy-balloon-inbound-Restricted-airspace-setup-over-northern-Alaska-/5-2622850/&page=3 |
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Posted: 2/17/2023 10:44:53 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Can you imagine if Trump was in office and did this? The MSM would fap themselves unconscious. This country is in serious trouble if we had to fight here or abroad. |
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Posted: 2/17/2023 10:46:51 AM EDT
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Our government is infested with unqualified diversity hires and misgendered weirdos. This isn’t surprising. National defense seems to be our least important priority.
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Posted: 2/17/2023 10:49:11 AM EDT
[#5]
 it keeps getting better.
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Posted: 2/17/2023 10:50:48 AM EDT
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Not likely but wouldn't even a pico balloon and its payload cause damage to a jet engine if ingested?
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Posted: 2/17/2023 10:51:49 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: An 11-gram tracker, with HF and VHF/UHG antennas on a hobby balloon “interfered with sensors" on a fighter? It must be the aerial equivalent of "furtive movements".  The balloon was making a move, he had to get it on. |
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Posted: 2/17/2023 11:00:17 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: hows that work exactly?? objects detected, alert was sent, briefings were given, jets scrambled, pilots acquired target, clearance was given and missiles launched...and not one person in that chain paused briefly to question or confirm the target was or was not a commonly purchased balloon...  sounds to me like the gov owes the club a harmless balloon and perhaps needs to ratchet back the panic attacks. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Ok that club owes us $400k for the ordinance used. We'll eat the fuel and labor costs this time. hows that work exactly?? objects detected, alert was sent, briefings were given, jets scrambled, pilots acquired target, clearance was given and missiles launched...and not one person in that chain paused briefly to question or confirm the target was or was not a commonly purchased balloon... sounds to me like the gov owes the club a harmless balloon and perhaps needs to ratchet back the panic attacks. |
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Posted: 2/17/2023 11:01:45 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Not likely but wouldn't even a pico balloon and its payload cause damage to a jet engine if ingested? Yes. Could just fly past a pico balloon and smoke it thought. |
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Posted: 2/17/2023 11:07:31 AM EDT
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What if that club was just "told" to claim it to help the .GOV's cover up?
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Posted: 2/17/2023 11:08:42 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm a little concerned that folks are floating balloons or whatever near the cruising altitude of passenger jets. But I have to have some stupid fucking license to fly a quad copter. Are you just as concerned about the approximately 1,800 actual weather balloons being launched daily around the world? Twice a day, every day of the year, weather balloons are released simultaneously from almost 900 locations worldwide! This includes 92 released by the National Weather Service in the US and its territories. https://www.weather.gov/bmx/kidscorner_weatherballoons |
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Posted: 2/17/2023 11:14:43 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I called it back on the 10th and was mocked for it. Even named the station call-sign. https://www.ar15.com/forums/general/New-Chinese-Spy-balloon-inbound-Restricted-airspace-setup-over-northern-Alaska-/5-2622850/&page=3 That sounds like a very cool hobby! |
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Posted: 2/17/2023 12:00:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We owe them $12 for mistaking their $12 balloon for an instrument of war. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Ok that club owes us $400k for the ordinance used. We'll eat the fuel and labor costs this time. We owe them $12 for mistaking their $12 balloon for an instrument of war. This could have been prevented if there was only a publicly available tracking site for amateur balloons. https://amateur.sondehub.org/ Too bad our MIL has no sigint capable of picking up well known amateur radio APRS trackers. |
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Posted: 2/17/2023 12:30:17 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/17/2023 12:37:17 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/17/2023 12:37:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: An on another note an AIM 9X can apparently hit a person or something without a heat sig people have heat signatures. |
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Posted: 2/17/2023 12:39:54 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/17/2023 12:42:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We tried to prevent this tragedy.  https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/188107/BA1DA55B-88CD-4014-9CD3-D89D885236C0_jpe-2714302.JPGhttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/188107/019C7CB2-110A-4E01-9B00-E86C86092673_jpe-2714303.JPGhttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/188107/BCE3DB23-CA17-4667-9C20-8E58B8CCDCEB_jpe-2714304.JPGhttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/188107/54B88924-3080-4B27-8872-4E5F3BFCF47E_png-2714305.JPG We need common sense balloon control. |
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Posted: 2/17/2023 12:44:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: This could have been prevented if there was only a publicly available tracking site for amateur balloons. https://amateur.sondehub.org/ Too bad our MIL has no sigint capable of picking up well known amateur radio APRS trackers. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Ok that club owes us $400k for the ordinance used. We'll eat the fuel and labor costs this time. We owe them $12 for mistaking their $12 balloon for an instrument of war. This could have been prevented if there was only a publicly available tracking site for amateur balloons. https://amateur.sondehub.org/ Too bad our MIL has no sigint capable of picking up well known amateur radio APRS trackers. Either our govt at all levels is completely incompetent which is very likely, or this was all part of the circus act for reasons. Either way, it's bad. |
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Posted: 2/17/2023 12:56:45 PM EDT
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They should file a lawsuit for their lost property. |
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Posted: 2/17/2023 1:01:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Either our govt at all levels is completely incompetent which is very likely, or this was all part of the circus act for reasons. Either way, it's bad. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Ok that club owes us $400k for the ordinance used. We'll eat the fuel and labor costs this time. We owe them $12 for mistaking their $12 balloon for an instrument of war. This could have been prevented if there was only a publicly available tracking site for amateur balloons. https://amateur.sondehub.org/ Too bad our MIL has no sigint capable of picking up well known amateur radio APRS trackers. Either our govt at all levels is completely incompetent which is very likely, or this was all part of the circus act for reasons. Either way, it's bad. my question also with what we spend on defense, we don't have the capability to determine what something is? and if we can't, shouldn't we? |
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Posted: 2/17/2023 2:08:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: @gloftoe Before you get too concerned, how many times has a balloon interfered with air traffic the last 70 years ? Cruising altitude would be the "best case" scenario for an engine out Low altitude bird strikes are an order of magnitude more dangerous Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I'm a little concerned that folks are floating balloons or whatever near the cruising altitude of passenger jets. But I have to have some stupid fucking license to fly a quad copter. @gloftoe Before you get too concerned, how many times has a balloon interfered with air traffic the last 70 years ? Cruising altitude would be the "best case" scenario for an engine out Low altitude bird strikes are an order of magnitude more dangerous My statement was more of a commentary on the stupidity of quadcopter regulations. |
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Posted: 2/17/2023 2:22:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm a little concerned that folks are floating balloons or whatever near the cruising altitude of passenger jets. But I have to have some stupid fucking license to fly a quad copter. Don't worry. There will be FAA regulations on everything shortly. |
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Posted: 2/17/2023 2:24:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: So now we know where to send the bill for the AIM-9X to. |
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Posted: 2/17/2023 2:28:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: As much as I hate Biden I will state the unpopular opinion here that there is a ton of Monday morning quarterbacking going on complaining about shootdowns 2 and later being a waste of taxpayer money. There is plenty about Biden to be angry about, but if we had a Republican in office and even if they shot down the first balloon before it went over CONUS, I could easily see them taking the same course and shooting down 2 and later. He's acting like a child. |
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Posted: 2/17/2023 2:29:45 PM EDT
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IF and that is a rather big "IF" the item was a balloon, I am thrilled that the dizzy fucks running the cuntry spent a million dollars to shoot a 12.00 party store balloon down.
Could the pilots not observe that the item was a fucking balloon? I don't know, but I would expect a fly-by would easily be able to push a balloon around. This whole charade is such fucking bullshit. It's just silly. |
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Posted: 2/17/2023 2:32:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11760443/Did-Joe-Biden-shoot-hobbyists-12-balloon-380-000-missile.html https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/259519/F38F2DB9-EF04-4AC1-8D45-8BF544AEDD7A_jpe-2713532.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/259519/D6CB22DD-176A-498C-A7F2-21628389F707_jpe-2713533.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/259519/A4B08745-7C16-4B59-A666-E5F4130A7A43_jpe-2713540.JPG According to the marxist US Government under Biden, these people are domestic terrorists who need removed from society. And, oh yeah, "assault weapons" need banned too. |
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Posted: 2/17/2023 2:35:01 PM EDT
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"Make no mistake, if any object presents a threat to the safety and security of the American people I will take it down,"
Biden is such a bad-ass. Alpha male boss man. |
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Posted: 2/17/2023 7:16:16 PM EDT
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You can’t make this shit up.
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Posted: 2/17/2023 7:17:34 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/17/2023 7:27:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: So they launched a ballon with a payload the size of three school buses? And it was tracked from China, no less? Doubtful Jesus Christ 
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Posted: 2/17/2023 7:59:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: $300k missile to shoot down a legal, hobby $180 balloon. Top men/women/trannies ETA: 99 red balloons Floating in the summer sky Panic bells, it's red alert There's something here from somewhere else The war machine springs to life Opens up one eager eye Focusing it on the sky The 99 red balloons go by 99 Decision Street 99 ministers meet To worry, worry, super scurry Call the troops out in a hurry This is what we've waited for This is it boys, this is war The President is on the line As 99 red balloons go by 99 knights of the air Ride super high-tech jet fighters Everyone's a superhero Everyone's a Captain Kirk With orders to identify To clarify and classify Scrambling the summer sky 99 red balloons go by Quote HistoryQuoted: $300k missile to shoot down a legal, hobby $180 balloon. Top men/women/trannies ETA: 99 red balloons Floating in the summer sky Panic bells, it's red alert There's something here from somewhere else The war machine springs to life Opens up one eager eye Focusing it on the sky The 99 red balloons go by 99 Decision Street 99 ministers meet To worry, worry, super scurry Call the troops out in a hurry This is what we've waited for This is it boys, this is war The President is on the line As 99 red balloons go by 99 knights of the air Ride super high-tech jet fighters Everyone's a superhero Everyone's a Captain Kirk With orders to identify To clarify and classify Scrambling the summer sky 99 red balloons go by If you have some time for me Then I will sing a song for you About ninety-nine balloons On their way to the horizon Perhaps you're thinking about me right now Then I will sing a song for you About ninety-nine balloons And how one thing leads to another Ninety-nine balloons On their way to the horizon Which people thought were UFOs from space Therefore a general sent A fighter squadron after them To give the alarm if it was so There were present on the horizon At the ninety-nine balloons Ninety-nine jet fighters Each was a great warrior Reckoned they were Captain Kirk There was a great display of fireworks The neighbors didn't get it at all And soon felt under attack So they shot at the horizon At ninety-nine balloons Ninety-nine ministers of war Matches and petrol cans They regarded themselves as clever people Already on the scent of fat quarry They shouted "War" and wanted power Man, who would have thought That someday it would come as far as this Because of ninety-nine balloons Ninety-nine years of war Left no place for victors There are no longer any ministers of war And also no jet fighters Today i'm making my rounds I see the world lying in ruins I have found a balloon I think of you and let it fly The 80s, where you might survive an enemy's strike, vs. today, where the enemy is from within. |
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