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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:54:02 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What did we end up doing with the 747 that had a gigantic frickin' laser in it?  Attached File |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:54:04 PM EST
[#2]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Video of the take down
Definitely a missile. |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:54:13 PM EST
[#3]
Quote HistoryQuoted: When was the last time a foreign country’s aircraft was shot down in US Airspace? Isn’t this pretty monumental? As far as I know, the last time was (ironically) a Japanese balloon in WWII (but that may have just been Alaska, so not really US mainland at the time). So, yes…this is historic. |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:54:20 PM EST
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Higher resolution you can see the actual jet
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:54:31 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Wait, they used a fucking missile?  |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:54:52 PM EST
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just talked to a ham who said he saw it KABOOM and heard sonic booms
about fucking time !!! |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:55:01 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: What dey shoot it with? Good choice! |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:55:04 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The pilot gets bragging rights for a while I guess. First kill for the F-22? Hell yeah. Taking out a hostile target over domestic airspace, that's a win! kek |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:55:35 PM EST
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So thats it?
What about the other balloons? I thought there were three. All of the information that they had has already been transmitted back to china anyway, surely their plan wasn't to just to fly the balloon around and then land it back in Beijing. |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:55:47 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yep. Now all that's left is for the idiotic, self-praising, "We got it!" commentary from the gov. We really showed China.  Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: So f'n aggravating. No wreckage/no intel and that's not by accident. Yep. Now all that's left is for the idiotic, self-praising, "We got it!" commentary from the gov. We really showed China. In 1974 we plucked parts of a Russian sub at a depth of 16k. I'm sure we can find this shit. |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:55:53 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ We have a winnner!!!!!!!!!!! Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: That's why they waited. Can't have any evidence found by civilians. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ We have a winnner!!!!!!!!!!! Looks like the missile hit was on the sensor package. Seems to me if you wanted to recover the sensor package you would target the balloon instead. |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:55:53 PM EST
[#12]
Was that a 400 mile debris field ?
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:56:02 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Is this the standard talking point, or something? I just heard muh 3 school buses. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Wonder if the school buses are going to be ok.  you win the internets! Is this the standard talking point, or something? I just heard muh 3 school buses. Yeah. The sad part is that now China is short 216 children. 
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:56:11 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Does pilot get to paint balloon kill on his plane? yes |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:56:23 PM EST
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:56:36 PM EST
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This is Eagle One, splash the balloon! I say again, splash the balloon!
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:56:37 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What dey shoot it with? Looked like an AIM-9 |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:56:45 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It was a missile
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:56:54 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What's it matter now? I'm sure everything's already been transmitted back. |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:56:55 PM EST
[#20]
What a proud moment for America. LOL.
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:57:02 PM EST
[#21]
Now we wait to see what happens to #2 Chinese balloon over canada...
Let's not forget that there's another one. |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:57:16 PM EST
[#22]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Does pilot get to paint balloon kill on his plane? He fucking well better! Current military brass won't allow that, though. Don't want to humiliate china. |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:57:19 PM EST
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What. A. Fucking. Embarrassment. We let China violate our airspace. Fly over numerous sensitive sites likely picking up all sorts of intell on the way. As it leaves our airspace and heads to international waters, we drop it with a fucking missiles so it crashes fast and destroys anything we can learn from it? I mean, common sense says use the guns and let it slowly descend. This is a complete an total failure at every level. Nothing here was done right. Nothing. I don't know what we could have done worse. This country is beyond fucked.
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:57:50 PM EST
[#24]
Quote HistoryQuoted: video of shootdown - showing missile launch and interception https://twitter.com/i/status/1621956823447207937 Fucking AWESOME !!! 
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:57:50 PM EST
[#25]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Looked like an AIM-9 Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: What dey shoot it with? Looked like an AIM-9 Really? Would it be able to lock on a heat signature that small and irregular? |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:58:04 PM EST
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted: So thats it? What about the other balloons? I thought there were three. All of the information that they had has already been transmitted back to china anyway, surely their plan wasn't to just to fly the balloon around and then land it back in Beijing. It was a weather balloon, of course they wanted it to land back in Beijing. Now their weather forecast is going to suck for the next couple of months. |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:58:04 PM EST
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: As far as I know, the last time was (ironically) a Japanese balloon on the West Coast in WWII. So, yes…this is historic. So 80 years ago, we managed to shoot down a balloon BEFORE it crossed the whole country? |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:58:10 PM EST
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Definitely a missile. some of the best play by play commentary i've heard in a while. |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:58:11 PM EST
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Doing what it was built to do. Shooting down commie aircraft  Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: It's being reported it was a F-22 that shot the missile(s) Doing what it was built to do. Shooting down commie aircraft Wasn't it designed to shoot down commies approaching, not departing? If not I'd consider that a design flaw. |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:58:13 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The failure to recover hardware is a spectacular mistake by the administration. Be assured they were told not to attempt to recover. By China |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:58:25 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Now we wait to see what happens to #2 Chinese balloon over canada... Let's not forget that there's another one. Now that we will have data on the debris field shooting one down over land will be more likely. |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:59:05 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Was more than likely rigged that way, surprised the package did not have a self destruct mechanism on it. Off to YouTube. |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:59:45 PM EST
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In addition to allowing the ballon to loiter over Malmstrom, it passed over, or near, Whiteman AFB.
Our priorities apparently are financing Zee and diversity briefings. What a GD shit show |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 2:59:53 PM EST
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The media whores and their pimps in D.C. will do everything in their power to cover for the pedo pres. and paint this as him being a great leader. There will be no further humiliation than has already happened. Protect at any cost. They will ignore and lie about what this thing has already collected during its flight and say the situation was handled magnificently by senile corrupt Joey B.
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Posted: 2/4/2023 3:00:23 PM EST
[#35]
Took public opinion before the f'n president did anything. Loser.
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Posted: 2/4/2023 3:00:42 PM EST
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Is this the first ever shooting down of a foreign aircraft over US territorial waters ?
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Posted: 2/4/2023 3:01:07 PM EST
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Don’t see a missile contrail….  Quote HistoryQuoted: Don’t see a missile contrail…. Saw the start of one then it switched to the smokeless motor. Not sure why they aren't all low smoke motors, maybe not enough push? Does this still leave one over Montana or am I just slow in the news? Seems they intercepted it on the wrong side of what they're supposed to be protecting. |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 3:01:09 PM EST
[#38]
China is laughing their asses off right now they were allowed to go from Alaska Canada and the central United States all the way to the east coast and now its on the way out now it’s disposed of ! what a joke this government is of course Biden is just a puppet and is doing what he’s told to do this sensor array should have been downed in Alaska
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Posted: 2/4/2023 3:01:13 PM EST
[#39]
Heard through the closed door of the oval office, "Ring, ring... Oh, you guys got all you wanted? Can I go ahead and have it shot down now? You know where to send the check, right?"
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Posted: 2/4/2023 3:01:17 PM EST
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: What. A. Fucking. Embarrassment. We let China violate our airspace. Fly over numerous sensitive sites likely picking up all sorts of intell on the way. As it leaves our airspace and heads to international waters, we drop it with a fucking missiles so it crashes fast and destroys anything we can learn from it? I mean, common sense says use the guns and let it slowly descend. This is a complete an total failure at every level. Nothing here was done right. Nothing. I don't know what we could have done worse. This country is beyond fucked. I'm with you. What a fucking embarrassment. |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 3:01:52 PM EST
[#41]
TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE. Biden fucking allowed this thing to complete its mission. The shoot down is for show. Should have happen several days ago. Biden is a fucking traitor and needs to be impeached over this.
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Posted: 2/4/2023 3:01:58 PM EST
[#42]
Now. Who is going to go snatch the second balloon?
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Posted: 2/4/2023 3:02:13 PM EST
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Yep Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: What a fuckin embarrassment . Yep This makes the Battle of Palmdale look good. |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 3:02:32 PM EST
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted: In 1974 we plucked parts of a Russian sub at a depth of 16k. I'm sure we can find this shit. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: So f'n aggravating. No wreckage/no intel and that's not by accident. Yep. Now all that's left is for the idiotic, self-praising, "We got it!" commentary from the gov. We really showed China. In 1974 we plucked parts of a Russian sub at a depth of 16k. I'm sure we can find this shit. It'll be a significantly more difficult task if not impossible. The important portions of this wreckage are MUCH smaller and fell at terminal speed from tens-of-thousands of feet before they sunk to the bottom. |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 3:02:43 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yep. Now all that's left is for the idiotic, self-praising, "We got it!" commentary from the gov. We really showed China. Best political move ever: 1. Have chicom "spy balloon" launched to float over the US 1a. Have second detractor balloon sent over some inconsequential land mass (i.e.- S. America) 2. Ponder shooting it down over US soil but opt not to for the sake of his beloved countrymen. 3. Wait for it to loiter across the US (and actually collect data) and over the Atlantic 4. Shoot down chicom balloon as EVERYBODY in the US and abroad is watching it live stream (well, with a 2min delay, just in case) 5. Pound chest in heroic stance and reap the rewards of NOT being a chinese puppet. 6. Sucess! |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 3:02:45 PM EST
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm with you. What a fucking embarrassment. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: What. A. Fucking. Embarrassment. We let China violate our airspace. Fly over numerous sensitive sites likely picking up all sorts of intell on the way. As it leaves our airspace and heads to international waters, we drop it with a fucking missiles so it crashes fast and destroys anything we can learn from it? I mean, common sense says use the guns and let it slowly descend. This is a complete an total failure at every level. Nothing here was done right. Nothing. I don't know what we could have done worse. This country is beyond fucked. I'm with you. What a fucking embarrassment. Implying that JSTARS wasn’t watching everything, or jamming what the balloon was transmitting. |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 3:02:46 PM EST
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Posted: 2/4/2023 3:02:51 PM EST
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Exactly. They'll probably won't even bother to attempt a recovery. If we can recover it, we'd be able to figure out exactly what intelligence it was gathering. Then the chorus would start that Biden should have shot it down weeks earlier. This isn't a 'Merica FUCK YEAH! moment. This is a cover up. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: That's why they waited. Can't have any evidence found by civilians. Exactly. They'll probably won't even bother to attempt a recovery. If we can recover it, we'd be able to figure out exactly what intelligence it was gathering. Then the chorus would start that Biden should have shot it down weeks earlier. This isn't a 'Merica FUCK YEAH! moment. This is a cover up. They’ll be some rednecks in Myrtle Beach definitely go try to find something. Fitting it died in Dirty Myrtle. |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 3:02:52 PM EST
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Lol at the replies.
Combat Sent hoovered up everything there is to know about what was being transmitted. Hardware recovery would have been nice but it was seemingly decided that the juice wasn't worth the squeeze. |
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Posted: 2/4/2023 3:03:01 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Does pilot get to paint balloon kill on his plane? That would be awesome. |
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