The bizarre secret behind China's spy balloon
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Earlier this year America's military defenses were put on notice against a Chinese balloon believed to be on an espionage mission. Gen. Mark Milley talks about what we've learned from an examination of the balloon's wreckage.

Nobody could have predicted this. I have my doubts even when they call it “spying equipment” or whatever considering Chinese claim it was a meteorological balloon, certainly no doubt they would try to paint those tools as such.

  • PZK [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Who would have thought a balloon is not useful for spying. You have little to no control over its direction, it isn’t discrete, and most silly of all, why use that when you have satellites?

    I guess the US was outwitted by a balloon after spending billions of dollars on cutting edge spy planes and powerful satellite cameras.