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Link Posted: 2/11/2023 6:37:22 PM EDT
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"  Last Two Downed Craft Didn't Necessarily Have Traits Of Balloons. "
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 6:38:29 PM EDT
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I hope we get to use another multi-million dollar missile instead of a few inexpensive bullets to shoot down a $30 barroon with $150 worth of gear on it.

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Shit I hope they’re not using anything more expensive than an AIM-7 on these shitty balloons. But seriously why not strafe it and be done??
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 6:38:41 PM EDT
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Seriously.  Exactly what should our response be to a hostile nation floating shot over the US?

I don't like us having to use F22s and use missiles.
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Dunno why, but this thread has a large response of really retarded juvenile posts. Must be something about balloons  and little kids I guess.
AH, the  Learned Professor VaniB has entered the chat.
Please, sir: Enlighten us with your  Great Knowledge of this airborne phenomena .
'Kay,  thanks.


Seriously.  Exactly what should our response be to a hostile nation floating shot over the US?

I don't like us having to use F22s and use missiles.
No planes or missiles is unrealistic for multiple reasons.

Link Posted: 2/11/2023 6:42:01 PM EDT
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Has it been noted that the F-22 that took down the Chicom balloon had the callsign "Frank?"

https://www.businessinsider.com/meet-ace-wwi-pilot-famous-for-shooting-down-enemy-balloons-2023-2
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 6:42:59 PM EDT
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Extremely low profile dumb penetrators to gauge detection capabilities kind of fits.
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 6:43:28 PM EDT
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I bet you can get a deal on hot air balloon rides this weekend.
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 6:44:09 PM EDT
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Third 'unidentified object' shot down over North America

FF to (3:07)  *Says we were unable to jam the signals coming from the balloon

Third 'unidentified object' shot down over North America
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 6:44:21 PM EDT
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I feel kind of bad for Canada.

I imagine it's exciting for the pilot to shoot something down. We should of let them have this one.

Link Posted: 2/11/2023 6:45:33 PM EDT
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I bet you can get a deal on hot air balloon rides this weekend.
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Link Posted: 2/11/2023 6:45:36 PM EDT
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Can India float balloons over China for us?
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 6:47:36 PM EDT
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Has it been noted that the F-22 that took down the Chicom balloon had the callsign "Frank?"

https://www.businessinsider.com/meet-ace-wwi-pilot-famous-for-shooting-down-enemy-balloons-2023-2
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Yes, many times.  What hasn't made the news is that one of the other two pairs of F-22s was using the callsign Luke.
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 6:47:48 PM EDT
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"  Last Two Downed Craft Didn't Necessarily Have Traits Of Balloons. "
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A triumph!
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 6:49:28 PM EDT
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Seems a bit of Pompei syndrome.
We all sit around saying these tremors don't presage a big event.
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 6:52:50 PM EDT
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And it's been shot down


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Wait... what? They shot down a UFO?

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Link Posted: 2/11/2023 6:53:47 PM EDT
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Choot it.
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 6:53:59 PM EDT
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I said we would need a balloon drinking game. Now look.
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I'm in
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 6:55:12 PM EDT
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"  Last Two Downed Craft Didn't Necessarily Have Traits Of Balloons. "

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The description of the first was it was cylindrical, silvery, and couldn't manuever.
I suppose the second may have been similar.

Something similar

Link Posted: 2/11/2023 6:55:26 PM EDT
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In order to downplay Biden’s fuck up over the ballon we’re going to have these fake reports shoved down our throats for the next 6 weeks
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 6:57:00 PM EDT
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Well the US is going to have to shoot it down for us. I don’t think any of Canada’s paper planes can fly that high.  Plus you can only spray maple syrup so far before it freezes in the high altitudes.



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how far can you folks toss a bag of milk?
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 6:57:00 PM EDT
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We must not allow a balloon gap.

Link Posted: 2/11/2023 6:57:23 PM EDT
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Better hurry up and have some more CRT classes and pay for more sexual mutilation, for readiness of course
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 6:58:02 PM EDT
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Third 'unidentified object' shot down over North America

FF to (3:07)  *Says we were unable to jam the signals coming from the balloon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEWToXN9SAA
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The "unable to jam" is interesting, if it isn't just bullshit. I suppose the type of aircraft we had at our disposal on scene would have an impact on that, but if we truly lack the capability, we need to snag one of those non-barroons.
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 6:58:39 PM EDT
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I think this is just some Biden push-up challenge bullshit.
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 7:01:06 PM EDT
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Someone check Ratheon and subsidiaries purchase records for weather balloons, etc.
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 7:01:13 PM EDT
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While I’m skeptical if anything these governments say and do, I have no doubt other nations are begging to fuck us up.

Now seems like a great time given our current leadership. I have direct knowledge that our defense contractors are ramping up building certain systems the government feels they’re going to need in the near future.
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 7:01:56 PM EDT
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Lulz.  Pantywaist tyrant fuck, Trudeau, just said it was an F-22.
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As per Fox News, the unidentified object has been splashed by the Canadians.

Lulz.  Pantywaist tyrant fuck, Trudeau, just said it was an F-22.



his dad, fidel, will be pissed he is shooting down commie balloons
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 7:03:14 PM EDT
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While I’m skeptical if anything these governments say and do, I have no doubt other nations are begging to fuck us up.

Now seems like a great time given our current leadership. I have direct knowledge that our defense contractors are ramping up building certain systems the government feels they’re going to need in the near future.
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Don’t be coy.

More scissors for M to F transformations?
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 7:05:39 PM EDT
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All designed to distract the general populace from Trudeau blackmailing provincial leaders to institute digital Id and share any and all medical information with the federal government.
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 7:05:44 PM EDT
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The "unable to jam" is interesting, if it isn't just bullshit. I suppose the type of aircraft we had at our disposal on scene would have an impact on that, but if we truly lack the capability, we need to snag one of those non-barroons.
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This is the only part that actually makes sense.  

If your intent is to spy, you don't go and constantly transmit your findings back to base.  Instead, you use burst transmissions with / random intervals and frequencies.  That way, you cannot be jammed unless your adversary chooses to effectively jam large swaths of the bands which also screws with everyone else whom you aren't trying to jam.
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 7:06:11 PM EDT
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Don’t be coy.

More scissors for M to F transformations?
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While I’m skeptical if anything these governments say and do, I have no doubt other nations are begging to fuck us up.

Now seems like a great time given our current leadership. I have direct knowledge that our defense contractors are ramping up building certain systems the government feels they’re going to need in the near future.


Don’t be coy.

More scissors for M to F transformations?


I’m not about to out myself but they sure as fuck don’t think our planes will be taking off from land I can tell you that.
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 7:06:20 PM EDT
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Of course the US shot it down.  Fuck Castro’s bastard. Worthless fuck.

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And it's been shot down




Of course the US shot it down.  Fuck Castro’s bastard. Worthless fuck.




I feel sure somebody in the US military told him we were going to do it and that they didn't care if it hurt his feelings but he could have some aircraft tag along.  I mean Xi essentially called him a bitch to his face and he scurried away like he'd crapped himself.
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 7:08:39 PM EDT
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Senators Press for Answers at Hearing on Chinese Spy Balloon
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 7:09:17 PM EDT
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All designed to distract the general populace from Trudeau blackmailing provincial leaders to institute digital Id and share any and all medical information with the federal government.
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Completely unsurprisingly I haven't seen that news bit.  That retard is full on NWO, no tinfoil needed.
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 7:14:12 PM EDT
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Completely unsurprisingly I haven't seen that news bit.  That retard is full on NWO, no tinfoil needed.
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@sandboxmedic

https://www.rebelnews.com/premier_smith_says_no_to_national_health_care_digital_id
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 7:22:38 PM EDT
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I hope we get to use another multi-million dollar missile instead of a few inexpensive bullets to shoot down a $30 barroon with $150 worth of gear on it.

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If only that would work. Google it and get back to us. Or don’t.
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 7:23:09 PM EDT
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I feel kind of bad for Canada.

I imagine it's exciting for the pilot to shoot something down. We should of let them have this one.

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I posted a good History Guy piece on balloon shoot downs through history.  

Canada had a chance with a rogue weather balloon a few years ago.  He reported a pair of RCAF F-18s threw a thousand rounds of 20mm at it with no affect.
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 7:24:22 PM EDT
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Scramble jets, shoot it down!



Link Posted: 2/11/2023 7:26:28 PM EDT
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@sandboxmedic

https://www.rebelnews.com/premier_smith_says_no_to_national_health_care_digital_id
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Completely unsurprisingly I haven't seen that news bit.  That retard is full on NWO, no tinfoil needed.



@sandboxmedic

https://www.rebelnews.com/premier_smith_says_no_to_national_health_care_digital_id



Thanks.  I've got an ex girlfriend up there but she went liberal loony, government supporter.  We used to still talk a fair bit including some politics but I think covid finally broke her brain, she got bent out of shape when I complemented Canadians on the world's largest trucker convoy.  

He's definitely one of the worst "world leaders" in his own retarded but completely WEF owned way.  Hopefully you guys can win the fight against Ottawa.



ETA (and off the topic of shooting down UFOs )
Mmmm, socialized healthcare for everybody is such a great idea.

According to the Fraser Institute, Saskatchewan observed surgical wait times averaged 11.9 weeks to see a specialist and an additional 18.1 weeks to receive the surgery in 2021/22.

In Alberta, the province observed surgical wait times averaging 14.1 weeks to see a specialist and an additional 19.2 weeks to receive the surgery for the same period.

According to the Fraser Institute and Secondstreet.org, Canadian patients waited longer than ever this year for medical treatment, including critical surgeries, treatments, and procedures. In 2021/22, median wait times for Canadians were 27.4 weeks — the longest ever recorded — up from 25.6 weeks in 2021 and 195% higher than the 9.3 weeks in 1993 when the Fraser Institute first tracked wait times.

At least 13,581 patients died while waiting for surgeries, procedures, and diagnostic scans in 2021/22 — up from the previous year's total of 11,581.
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 7:28:14 PM EDT
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If we’re spending a trillion dollars per year and we don’t have a laser that can shoot these things down then lots of folks need to go to that gillateen thang.
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We do.  It's just not worth letting everyone know about it over a balloon.
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 7:28:31 PM EDT
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We need a balloon or more a week to stop talking about classified documents turning up everywhere.
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 7:30:12 PM EDT
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Well, there goes Hunter’s March installment check from China.
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 7:30:17 PM EDT
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We need a shock and awe barroon campaign of our own. Immediately.
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 7:30:56 PM EDT
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This is fucking embarrassing.  We are being punked by fucking balloons.  Eventually one of these is going to be up to no good. NORAD needs to figure out a way to find these earlier, and fund an easier and cheaper way to shoot them down.  In the meantime, we need to be doing the same to China.  Unfortunately we don't have any friendly nations on the western border of China.  I don't think you are going to be able to fuck with them from SK.  Maybe if we didn't fucking abandon Bargram we could at least have a way to get to them from the west.
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Spoiler alert. This is only an unknown quantity to people not currently in the gov with need to know. NORAD can likely see them just fine, and early. It’s a matter of waiting until they are out of international airspace. It’s a publicity stunt now because people got inflamed and “fucking embarrassed” when they heard about it on tv.
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 7:31:00 PM EDT
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And to see response time.

Then launch 1000 ballon's armed with conventionalJDAMs etc.

While a/c are busy, launch enough troop ships that the US can't stop them all.

Then follow up with more balloons to deplete ADA etc assets followed by a limited ICBMs launches with conventional warheads.

Make the US respond with the first nuke or wait to see who turns the key. China could keep the warheads conventional and warn against any nuke retaliation.

Question is, who will open the canned sunshine first.
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 7:32:25 PM EDT
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Austin Powers - Radar Jokes
Link Posted: 2/11/2023 7:32:44 PM EDT
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Just imagine if China launched a few thousand of these things. That would really soak up our AIM9X inventory.
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They might be wanting to see how our laser works.
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