Chinese balloon......

[Retired Spook]

No matter what the truth of the balloon is (not saying we will ever know the actual truth), it should have been shot down the instant it entered American airspace in Alaska. The Chinese made their point.

 

[Buckeye1]

They had to call the big guns in!

 

[Smoke-Chem BBQ]

Popping the balloon with a bullet or two would allow for a slow decent in one piece.

High altitude balloons aren't inflated to the point where the they will 'pop' at their normal service altitude. The envelopes have a lot of extra room for the helium to expand (and contract) with changes in temperature and elevation. So bullet holes would only cause slow leaks. And it was a huge balloon, 30 meters across, so hundreds of 30 mm holes left by cannon fire wouldn't bring it down for a loooooong time.

 

[Retired Spook]

I loved this show - Agarn was the best!

 

[Ishi]

No worries guys its just Hunter

 

[3montes]

No worries guys its just Hunter
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Man that picture of Hunter can't be unseen! Just given the things we do know that is one dysfunctional family. I don't even want to think about what we don't know.

 

[Retired Spook]

Man that picture of Hunter can't be unseen! Just given the things we do know that is one dysfunctional family. I don't even want to think about what we don't know.

Only the worst of humanity rises to the top!

 

[mneeley490]

Or... it could mean that our vaunted effeminate-deviant bolshevik infiltrated intelligence community did not inform the previous administration, thereby aiding and abetting communist China.

America aint what it used to be.

I'm sure they did. But since 45 was infamous for not reading his daily briefings, it probably just got lost in all the noise.

 

[Retired Spook]

I'm sure they did. But since 45 was infamous for not reading his daily briefings, it probably just got lost in all the noise.

NORAD General says "they missed it..."

 

[Retired Spook]

Oops

 

[sawhorseray]

 

[bill1]

I think they missed the earlier ones “in real time”. But data is cheap to archive now. So now that the know the telltale signatures to look for, they looked at the past data again and found other incursions.
multiple sources have said Trump wasn’t easy to brief but I think this would have caught his imagination had we truly known at the time.

 

[GonnaSmoke]

For a few laughs, check this out...

 

[TNJAKE]

Just shot down a "car sized object" over Alaska........

 

[mneeley490]

Just shot down a "car sized object" over Alaska........

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?

 

[TNJAKE]

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?

Lol honestly at this point I wouldn't be surprised!

 

[TNJAKE]

Well I'll be! The president finally popped a freaking balloon before it flew close to what I thought was a secured "border". Way to go Dumbass!

Easy now. As of now it just an object. Don't go blaming those balloons #balloonlivesmatter

 

[gmc2003]

Watch it turn out to be one of ours.

Chris

 

[TNJAKE]

Watch it turn out to be one of ours.

Chris

Right. You can't even make that up

 

[pineywoods]

This thread is locked because some people can't leave politics out