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Biden......use the 100 lbs sledge hammer, no need to be delicate now !
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From the vice president who didn't even want to kill Bin Laden when given the opportunity.
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another angle
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If I was the PRC, I would send ten more, all with powerful transmitters that played the PRC National Anthem lol.
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So it cost us how much to shoot this down? After it had completed it's mission.
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China is asshoe.
Biden administration is an incompetent, indecisive, embarrassment. |
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Moment it was hit
Chinese balloon shot down over Atlantic Ocean |
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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. View Quote Another in a long string of failures. Not retaliating to the al-Asad missile strike The f’ed up withdrawal from Kabul Sending billions in cash and military aid to fight a proxy war with Russia |
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Quoted: Implying that JSTARS wasn’t watching everything, or jamming what the balloon was transmitting. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: 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. You're okay with it traversing our airspace? Attached File |
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" A senior Defense Department official told reporters Thursday that the U.S. prepared fighter jets in case of a decision to shoot down the balloon, but senior Pentagon leaders opted against it due to fears of falling debris hurting people on the ground.
Another DoD official on Friday said the military had estimated the shooting down of the balloon would create a debris field 20 miles by 20 miles. “Last thing we wanted was for something the size of a school bus to go through the roof of a preschool,” the official said. " |
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What type of ground cameras do we have that might have been used to observe the instrument package attached to the balloon? I know we have cameras that track our rocket launches with pretty good detail.
Pretty sure we were recording what it was being broadcast from the package and also know it was done with crypto. |
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- lol at the "goin hot" cheerleaders
- the commies almost certainly rigged the payload to separate in case of lifting body disturbance - super-light fragile structure, robotics, comms, and other electronics will frag heavily on hitting water at terminal velocity - nothing to recover except the bag and bits of frames/panels - water shootdown ensures coverup complete - everyone involved was just following orders |
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Fox News just said it was shot down with 20mm.
Guess they don't watch their own video. |
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https://twitter.com/i/status/1621962597166727168
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The Chinese Spy Balloon Song |
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Whoever was the pilot that shot it down, they still have a long way to go before they catch up with Frank Luke .
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Quoted: 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. View Quote |
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Quoted: 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. View Quote |
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Quoted: " A senior Defense Department official told reporters Thursday that the U.S. prepared fighter jets in case of a decision to shoot down the balloon, but senior Pentagon leaders opted against it due to fears of falling debris hurting people on the ground. Another DoD official on Friday said the military had estimated the shooting down of the balloon would create a debris field 20 miles by 20 miles. “Last thing we wanted was for something the size of a school bus to go through the roof of a preschool,” the official said. " View Quote The part in bold. These people run our country. The payload was nowhere near the weight of a school bus. Fuck him. |
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Anyone want to place bets on how long before another China balloon starts floating overhead?
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I'm surprised any Air Guard and Governor over in any state it went over had the balls to shoot it down. (I am instigating)
Does any air guard have the capabilities? |
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Quoted: another angle
View Quote Turn and burn baby ! |
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Quoted: Seems like a win would be shooting it down before it crossed all our airspace, not after it was leaving. I don't think this was a win, this was just a show. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: First kill for the F-22? Hell yeah. Taking out a hostile target over domestic airspace, that's a win! kek Seems like a win would be shooting it down before it crossed all our airspace, not after it was leaving. I don't think this was a win, this was just a show. Hence the "kek" I mean I'd brag about it if I were the one that shot it down, just because it's the first kill for an F-22. But overall the situation is an embarrassment. |
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Quoted: - lol at the "goin hot" cheerleaders - the commies almost certainly rigged the payload to separate in case of lifting body disturbance - super-light fragile structure, robotics, comms, and other electronics will frag heavily on hitting water at terminal velocity - nothing to recover except the bag and bits of frames/panels - water shootdown ensures coverup complete - everyone involved was just following orders View Quote You must be fun at parties |
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Another angle of the shoot down.
Chinese Balloon being shot down near Myrtle Beach SC |
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The Air Force was able to figure out how to shoot down the Chinese balloon? I guess they found the chink in its armor.
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Quoted: The combat sent and previous rivet joint(s) were having a field day. People don't think sigint, frequencies, mod/cod, DSSS, and crypto, etc. be like it is but it do. But i'll just go back to my hidey hole about those such things and let everyone nash their teeth in their jazzy scooters. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: 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. It's all good. Why would you have an intel field day when you could blow something up instead? |
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Quoted: Wouldn't the big trail be a plane and the small/fast trail be a rocket/missile/whats the difference? Funny how the best video is streaming from someone's phone on twitter. All the money in media and no one pointed a 5000x zoom at that bitch with a live feed? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: 20 Mike Mike Wouldn't the big trail be a plane and the small/fast trail be a rocket/missile/whats the difference? Funny how the best video is streaming from someone's phone on twitter. All the money in media and no one pointed a 5000x zoom at that bitch with a live feed? Yep you are correct. |
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Quoted: Seems like a win would be shooting it down before it crossed all our airspace, not after it was leaving. I don't think this was a win, this was just a show. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: First kill for the F-22? Hell yeah. Taking out a hostile target over domestic airspace, that's a win! kek Seems like a win would be shooting it down before it crossed all our airspace, not after it was leaving. I don't think this was a win, this was just a show. Meh. I expect this was a Swamp Fox who just said FJB and took care of business. |
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