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Originally Posted by DrivesAllDay
Well, if I was an unfriendly country, I think the first thing I'd want to know about the USA is, whats the response times to a perceived threat? What capabilities do they have that I don't know about? How good is their detection system?
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exactly. and guess what they found out? with all that NORAD gear that is supposedly the most sophisticated in the world is apparently so poorly designed it can't detect a 200ft fucking balloon towing a surveillance array as big as a school bus. it wasn't spotted on radar approaching Alaska, crossing Alaska (don't we have regular patrols anymore??) and into Canada and not until Tuesday when civilians in Montana spotted it and reported it.
i've read articles citing several "military experts" (for whatever that's worth these days) claiming radar wasn't really designed to detect slow moving objects. yet civilian radar can detect a Cessna going 120 mph? is it possible China designed this balloon with radar absorbing material? certainly. but aren't we supposed to be the experts on this? you'd think we would have some insight on detecting what we developed.
it appears the only mistake China made was not making the balloon's fabric sky blue instead of white to make it basically invisible to the naked eye against the blue sky.
don't believe two things about this. first don't believe a word of this nonsense Biden ordered "increased capability". yet that "increased capability" failed to detect this balloon until it was over Montana? reported by civilians? right! and certainly don't believe any of this "review" of prior data detected other "incursions" during Trump's term? nonsense and a lame attempt to deflect from this happening on Biden's watch.
Pentagon says object spotted over Montana was Chinese spy balloon
https://www.kpax.com/news/local-news...se-spy-balloon
By: MTN News , CBS News
Posted at 4:11 PM, Feb 02, 2023 and last updated 11:35 AM, Feb 03, 2023
The Defense Department is "confident" a balloon spotted over Billings Wednesday is a surveillance balloon from China, a senior defense official said Thursday.
Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman General Mark Milley and vice chairman Gen. Christopher Grady recommended against taking "kinetic action" because of possible danger from falling debris, the defense official said.
President Joe Biden has been briefed on the situation.
Several people in the Billings area reported seeing the object in the sky Tuesday.