Urgent mission to recover Chinese spy balloon debris | WNT
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- U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships are searching and securing a massive perimeter to retrieve every piece of the balloon they can find.
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At one point, the balloon was directly over my house in Myrtle Beach. When USAF shot the balloon down, the missile explosion shook my neighborhood. We watched it fall for several minutes. It was thrilling.
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The aim 9x they used didn’t have a warhead. What you heard was the 9x going Mach 3 breaking the sound barrier.
You’re lucky you aren’t covered in anthrax.
The explosion was most likely a sonic boom. It was heard before the impact
@@ethantraub6400 yes, a sonic boom. Heard before the hit
A family member lives off coast in SC theirs video. 3 planes aswell
As ships on station. 3rd plane was criss crossing the formation and he's the one who took the shot. Ships were already on station they have it.
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This level of shooting the baloon seems like they have no intention to recover it instead looks like concealing any trace of evidence by sinking into the depth of ocean.
The pilot was just doing his job 🇺🇲👍
The great balloon slayer
Fighter pilot gets the order, fighter pilot comply.
Just following orders - is another way of putting it.
As were the Nazis, and the Stalinists regime, you fking capitalist bootlicker scumbag.
AIM 9X Sidewinder fired from F-22 Raptor in the Balloon Ballistic Battalion
It only had to cross literally the entire country first. Very impressive
Not necessarily, at about 2:50 in the video the reporter says that the balloon flew over sensitive military sites including nuclear missile facilities. I believe the balloon flew that path for a reason. Probably to find weakness in our defense capabilities. But that’s just my opinion. I could be wrong.
@@TheTruth-kf1tk what about being first spotted in Alaska, and then only being shot down past the east coast ISNT crossing the entire country? Not like it's expected to stop at every landmark lol
@@TheTruth-kf1tk Why would China ever risk any kind of attack on the US? LOTS of Chinese made goods fill US retail shelves!
@@nopenope4240 Its course was very specific and extremely strategic, pretty big coincidence it just happened to pass over the sensitive minute man sites! LOL
@@mikeklein4952 okay so yeah you haven't made a point with that
OMG I hope the Navy divers discover what the message was in the gigantic fortune cookie
With this entire story unfolding, I've never heard once why/when they confirmed that it was a Chinese balloon. It was called Chinese from the outset upon sight, so there is clearly more to the story than we know.
China admitted it was theirs as soon it was called out.
It’s happened many times. We tracked it all the way from China to Alaska, across Canada, into North US so
@@LaikaTheG nope China claimed it themsleves
@@LaikaTheG Well that's what I mean. The story became public when it was a Chinese weather balloon spotted over Montana. So we knew about it earlier and didn't report on it for whatever reason. It's a long way between Hawaii, Alaska and Montana... But somehow we don't get breaking news until thousands of miles later.
I'm waiting for the conspiracy theorist to be eight again
Had they painted the thing sky blue, it might have gone undetected for a while longer.
good idea
Winter in U.S. so those skies probably wouldn't remain blue for long.
Maybe because the sky isn't blue in China... It's gray from all the smog. So for them white was camouflage.
Damnit, now we wont see the next one. Chinese gov't watches UA-cam.
They wanted it to be seen. I don't know exactly why but they did. It was probably also a test to see what we would do about it. I just hope all powers at be all over the world get their heads out of their a**'s and act like reasonable grown ups should act. Or the whole world sol..
Does this count towards becoming an ace? Could you imagine having a balloon painted on your fuselage?
I saw a pic of that exact thing. It's the first f-22 air-to-air
😂
A cheap balloon failed the expensive and much boasted US defense systems. What's worse is that they took down the cheap balloon with an expensive air-to-air missile. Imagine if there were 1000s of these babies up in the air. It wouldn't surprise anyone why they are in debts up to the neck.
-teochiangtee615
@@condorX2 safer than fire bullets into the air. its a safety issue not a $ issue.
OR having as many stickers on your fuselage as migrants you shuttled in the middle of the night .
i keep forgetting how much safer NIGHT flying is than DAYTIME ..
so much for FRAGILE PRECIOUS CARGO .
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Needed 5 Kills to become Aces
Someone needs to remind NORAD that their mission is to protect the U.S. from all airborne threats, including slow moving aircraft, not just supersonic and hypersonic aircraft. The Military Industrial Complex that Eisenhower warned us about has a tendency to focus on the expensive sexy projects, not the low-cost mundane systems that can do just as much harm.
It is Just a Harmless Balloon ! What could become of it ? Says Joe Biden ?
@@stevesanzari7294 Let me fix that for you Steve.
BIDEN: "SHOOT IT DOWN NOW!"
PENTAGON: It's over populated areas now so we recommend NOT SHOOTING IT DOWN NOW.
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They had ships on station when and before they shot it down. 3 planes were on station for several hours before they shot it down.
Lots of taxpayers money to take down 1 balloon haha
Government: You taxpayers have to work for me.
Well in that condition the waves and wind will make it hard ti track it. Since it was a bad weather.
@@lunaasonininongry6297 imagine if you gave an entity (the federal government) trillions upon trillions of dollars and they never get anything right.
@@Mike-bt3ki you little kids don't work so you didn't lose anything!
Sidewinder cost appx $210,000 and brings the balloon down rapidly from 60,000 feet. 20mm cannon rounds approximately $30 each and the balloon descends slowly to be recovered intact.
Was thinking the exact same thing! Missile didn’t even explode on impact prolly discharged in the sea somewhere. Should’ve just hit it with a burst out of the auto canon and there be less debris too 🥱
A 20mm would not have the capability too reach the height of the balloon
I was thinking the same exact thing
@@DoseofDustin what?? 😅
@@DoseofDustin F-22 has armament for a 20mm M61 Gatling.
me: watches this video
me again: looks at the corner
WW3: hello!
me: not happening
Why did you have to put that poor reporter on a boat in a storm.😂
indeed
Devilishment !
I saw the balloon by Saint Joseph Missouri. Which means most likely it went past Fort Leavenworth and maybe got a view of the Whiteman Air Force Base where two B-2 Spirit bomber are held.
@@kevinheath7588 It is widely known already.
They pointed jamming equipment towards the balloon
Just a small portion of what else it did see. It flew close to F.E. Warren and Minot AFB’s respectively. Probably saw all the missile silos throughout the Great Plains lol.
You are right. I was informed that it went right over the air force base. Sad to see that it got that kind of sovereign information.
@@lang6626 hope the jamming equipment was made in Japan and not China.
Being from South Carolina, it’s nice getting some attention from the balloon being shot down around myrtle beach, albeit myrtle beach is a bit of a dirty city sometimes… but I always love the attention regardless. We’re a pretty state just like all other, but don’t get covered much.
You guys got gators the hell with the Carolinas.😂
By your tone it sounds like you’re from Charleston
There’s also the video of the tornado out there lol I think it was 2000
I see yall on the news all the time, and I live in oregon!
Yeah you guys sided with the Confederacy. We remember who you are
Wow I didn’t realize there were so many Chinese Balloon Experts in America
Evidently there Aren’t Where it counts !
Rick on Pawn Stars just bought the balloon sensors and a big piece of the balloon for $1.50 and a chewed piece of bubble gum, and as usual he was taking all the risk. It's going to be on the next episode.
Absolutely excellent video!!! Very professional reporting!!! Loved hearing the fighter jet radio and the messages to the civilian aircrafts to land as soon as possible!!! One shot and it's down!!!! You covered all the facts beautifully!!!! Thank you!!!
Lol
What was the point of this comment? Useless information
@@TheTruth-13 what’s the point of your reply?
bruh they legit subtitled it as "blast one" 😂
@@TheTruth-13 his point is that once the fox news puppets come out then the comment board becomes full of garbage and hate filled conspiracies
yea!!
Now if you really wanted to recover it, you wouldn't shoot it down over water. There were many area over which it travelled where it could be brought down without hurting anyone. Additionally, why use a missile or rocket to shoot it down. It is simply a balloon. Puncture it with gun fire so it doesn't blow apart. That would make it much easier to recover. It might even float. I bet they either don't recover it or say it was too badly damaged to get any information out of it. I'm no conspiracy theorist, but this one looks fishy to me.
I have always advocated for the use of light anti-tank weapons for civilian use against spiders, and for the wielder of the weapon to hold their fire until said spider is directly on a family member's face. Damn those spiders!
the problem is that, unlike the missile, the bullets will continue to travel after hitting the balloon and might easily damage property and/or injure someone on the ground
@@m01mast3r your acting like the bullets are heavy, they lose speed so fast you would hardly even tell something hit you.
@@m01mast3r bullets don’t travel 3000 miles across the ocean. And if anything, the pilot could shoot at the balloon from an angle of attack higher than the balloon so the rounds would go straight into the water
@@m01mast3r the whole story was that they let it float around for a week exactly for that reason. so it would be out over the ocean
you're telling me we spent billions of dollars for jets that cant tuck a three round burst into a balloon under wind power?
You would think that they would have been there waiting. So it's hard to believe that they can't or want to find it.
Exactly my thought.
I can’t imagine people would be very happy if the balloon fell on top on a billion dollar warship. You people will never be satisfied. Nothing is ever good enough in your eyes, and everything is always suspicious.
You really don’t think they had other aircraft with eyes on the instrument package as it fell? Marking the exact spot it landed at? They probably had multiple drones tracking it with 4K video.
@@appleintosh watch some of the videos that people took. The payload blew up in a million pieces. The popped balloon floated slowly down to the water. If the payload was attached it would have dropped much faster to the water
YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE HOW STUPID OUR GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY CAN BE AT TIMES. IF YOU ONLY KNEW.
They took immediate steps, but they waited until it was all the way across the US. Something is not adding up as always.
Du... softer landing over the ocean.... sounds like they blinded it as soon as they saw it a week ago... It was just a big Chinese new year balloon after that..
Hey brainiac they waited until it was in the safest place! You would have downed potentially a dirty balloon that could have rained down poison over the country! I am D@mned glad you are the President!!!!!
What's not adding up? NORAD tracked the balloon before it entered our airspace, got visual on it, determined it wasn't a threat whatsoever, and then decided to observe its behavior and what the Chinese were trying to look at with it before shooting it down over the ocean. China's potential motives were a) to gather intelligence with it, which is possible but questionable since spy satellites exist and are far less likely to create a diplomatic incident, b) to test our response to it, which they got nothing from since we played them and did nothing to it (other than most likely electronic warfare/jamming to make sure it didn't transmit anything back to its owners), or c) to provoke us. They failed to do all three, and made themselves look incompetent and belligerent in the process. Remove the tinfoil hat and put the thinking cap on next time
@@yomama629 Because; they needed to make a calm rational response! Not a visceral knee jerk rash one! This is the difference between the irrational Reich-wing and the calm, collective rational reasoning of the Democrats!
@@aaronthenorm5400 agreed 100%
I think using the gun of jet is better than missle, gun can make ballon drop slow that its easy to get by navy
If the balloon had been taken down over Montana, we would have the entire apparatus and would already know what the Chinese learned as the balloon passed over our military installations.
Hello armchair military expert and intelligence officer.
Really? It would survive freefall into the ground?
Might not have survived ground contact but would have prevented prolonged spying .
@@tonysmith7702 hello braindead librul
tell me you don't know a single thing about electronic warfare without actually saying you don't know a single thing about electronic warfare
4:41 what a gorgeous rainbow in the background.
How can it be a civilian aircraft if it was declared as a weather balloon in the first place?
Air craft...that's how. Wings are not required. And it wasn't declared as anything in the first place. It was just sent.
This just proves no matter how much you spend on defense its never enough if your Leadership is weak and slow !
it's not even that All these leaders are playing with life that could have been anything inside that another Air Born virus even a war Head we must think before we act it's like this world is going crazy
Why didn't they put small holes in it and float it down. that would of been way for fun.
How? aircraft guns are short range and 58000 is actually higher than the upper flight limit for jets. Just getting to 58000 was pretty risky considering that after 45000 in altitude, the air is so thin that jet engine don't function properly and fuel consumption goes astronomical.
the pentagon is not known for tact nor being smart. I say this as a vet. Experience
Well as nice as that would be, it's not very easy.
That balloon is huge. If the rig underneath is the length of 2-3 buses alone, then the balloon is like the size of a parking garage. The holes you'd have to puncture in it will have to be HUGE to have an effect and there isn't an easy way to do that at the height these things fly at.
The balloon was the size of three school buses. Emptying an entire F-22 cannon’s magazine into it is still going to take a long time for all that gas to leak out. The balloon would probably continue flying for days, and would end up landing in the middle of the Atlantic or over Africa.
@@shellysmith1037 well the UA-cam comments aren't smarter either, so not sure what you're saying with this.
There's a lot of them, I saw in Apple valley CA
The U.S. military waited to shoot down the balloon until Saturday afternoon, when it was over water off the coast of South Carolina, due to safety concerns. It is now working to recover debris and intelligence information, according to officials." I bought slip resistant work shoes made in China a few days ago. I had to take them back already because they fell apart after only three shifts. Truth be told, they still have improvements to make when it comes to quality control.
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What did you expect when American companies are willing to pay no more than sweatshop wages lol. We get our phones and electronics made in China and they seem to work just fine, so evidently it’s just your shoes that are crap. Want good shoes? Pay good prices.
@@truehappiness4U LMAO calling Lenovo premium
Did they release a virus from that balloon?
I saw it at night over BC Canada, I wondered what the hell it was, It was lit up like when you see the ISS but moving so much slower. Cool
not that cool when they likely spy on Canada as well.
Wow you can see something at 60,000 feet when you can barely see a plane at 35k. Nice imagination
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@@jerrygoldstein3028 you been too the eye doctor lately? must need new glasses, I saw both easily in bc as well
@@jerrygoldstein3028 go take a look at some footage of news, regular people posting. That thing was a size of three large buses 🚌. It looked like a moon actually in clear blue sky. At night I’m sure it can be seen much clearer if it’s lit up.
They made sure to stop the balloon once it tracked across the entire continental U.S. It should have been downed over Alaska. Plus if it was a legit weather balloon we should have. asked if they could do it. I.believe it's a trial run for multiple E.M.P's
China received no data from this balloon so what's the danger?
They didn't entirely know if there weren't any weapons like biological weapons in it and the fact that it was a large object.Also,since it landed in the ocean,the water would keep it more intact than it falling on land.
Judging by it's size and pay load it can carry and they can steer it I totally agree.Next time they may try to color the balloon the same color as the sky so it cannot be seen so easily from the ground.
no, a chinese EMP attack would be done with their hypersonic glide weapons that the US lacks the ability to reliably shoot down.
Uh, why would China want to detonate an EMP in the US? LOTS and LOTS of Chinese made goods fill US retail shelves! Ever heard the phrase "dont bite the hand that feeds you"?
This gives a whole new meening to FIGHT or FLYIGHT responce .
Is that 3 normal length buses, or 3 short ones?
Good old Jo Bai Dihn just giving our whole country away along with a free tour to his best friends in the East.
Trump did it 3 times
You people would've complained no matter what was done
@@RR-on4sk exactly Republicans would've found something to complain about even if it was immediately shot down. They'd say joe was dumb for shooting it down so fast without knowing if there were chemical weapons thatd cause a fallout when it hit the ground
That was well thought out. Are you a genius?
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Wouldn’t whatever they observed or learned have been relayed back to them directly live so the damage is already done?
do you not understand why they're searching? they want to make sure that it WAS actually a spy plane.. If they can 100% confirm its a spy plane, they can then take the action needed. Obviously the damage has already been done, that's not why they're searching though lmao.
a basket of eggrolls. Lunar year gift
We are not sure that it actually is a spy balloon which is why they are searching for it but it most likely isn’t a spy balloon due to the fact that china has very advanced satellites in orbit getting much better photos of anywhere in America.
no. The US is completely unmatched in electronic warfare capabilities, this thing would have been unable to relay any data back to China because it was most likely jammed into oblivion. Had there been any threat to national security, NORAD would have shot it down before it reached Alaska
@@howdyimdan it was a balloon, not a plane. It's a bird no it a plane, no it duck dodgers of the 21 and 1/4 century *LOL*
Don’t search too hard. A Chinese submarine already retrieved it.
Rly?
@@wingsleveladventures Seems the paid bots are running out of ideas.
Chinabot
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Any reason it couldn’t be retrieved while it was floating about (like with a helicopter rigged with a hook or something like that) rather than shot down & then having a bunch of boats scouring the waters off the coast for days to find its mangled parts?
Because a helicopter tops out at about 25000 feet and this balloon was at between 60000and 70000ft.
@@Cowb0y24 fair enough, but was there no way to force it down to an altitude that would allow its retrieval? It’d be much harder for China to deny what it actually is if you had all of its parts intact.
exactly what i'm wondering. it seems so clumsy
How about a Giant Kite ? Or a Dragon ?
A week? They didn't think it would gather info in that time frame? Wow
I wonder if they had to wait for it to be over ocean for the liability of 3 busses falling from the sky onto possible civilians?
The balloon was followed by AWACS pretty quickly and had its signal jammed as it travelled across the U.S. Look it up.
There was no additional intelligence it could have gathered that the PRC already had from their satellites.
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Wyoming's a big place, not many people. Could've waxed it there
4:35 that Rainbow over the water! No one is talking about that! 🌈
Wow... a double rainbow! Lol. If you know, you know. 🤣
Oh, that? That's the set of James Cameron's _Avatar 3: Avatars vs. Leprechaun._ It's what the Chinese were actually spying on.
LOL the part where he says they were monitoring it for a week and took immediate action to prevent spying LOL.
It wasn't a camera but a land mapping geographic of the land scape and what's underneath. Tunnels nukes ect.
I still can't believe I was the pilot who shot that down, because I wasn't. I have never flown a plane
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it's true! i was the balloon
Wait - you just shot down a beautiful George Santos joke with a truth missile! 🚀🚀🚀
ok, George Santos,,lol
So I know your name isn't Brandon. Because admiral Joey climbed out on the wing and threw the missile at the balloon no foolin.ten star General cornflakes was the flight leader.
This passed directly over us. We saw it and sent photos to local police
Karen
Of which they Got on their Trustee Mounts and Proceded to the Area to Glance and Clamored what they had seen ! They immediately jotted down Notes ! To later be put in their Full investigative Reports and Sent to the President Joe Biden ! Who in return Put them In a Safe spot right in his Garage Next to his Classic 1960’s Corvette ! Because he Takes things like Classified information Seriously !
I really want that pilot's crew to paint a balloon on that pilot's F-22.
They better!
@@awesomeaiden53srandomstuff53 In the Chinese flag colors.
4 more balloons and he’ll be an ace!
Taking them a week to shut it down. I can’t imagine if there’s something else!
"taking immediate steps"...a whole week later!!
Took one week to the more powerful Air Force in planet earth and surrounding areas to shot down a spy balloon,I’m so glad the bad guys aren’t that bad to send us one of their hypersonic missiles.
From what I understand that balloon was being watched/tracked from a DC-137 joint rivet electronic warfare aircraft, every single ping sent from the balloon was recorded and its transmission to its control center was jammed. They gleaned info from it via high resolution imaging and more info about it will be gleaned after physical inspection after its recovered.
Good. I hope.
They could've taken it down without destroying it.
@@sawboss5794 Please explain exactly how to take it down without destroying it? What equipment would be used etc?
@@pbee73 Have you heard drones? It is so popular that Chinese used in their new year firework and Ukrane soldiers used it for drops boms.
They didn't jam anything but the recorded the transmissions. From my background in telemetry all they need is to work to find the data structure. I predict it will be GPS coordinates and some very low data rates.
The whole point of having a weather balloon is to see where it goes. It is a red flag when they say it was blown off course. And, It would also OF COURSE, have a barometer on it to tell how high it is - they can say it has weather related equipment on it.
But they Won’t !
They dropped smoke when the balloon hit the water so they knew the exact location. It's in the audio of the pilot if you listen to the entire clip.
The thing is the Size of3 Greyhound Busses ! Sort of hard to miss !
I swear this almost feels like an onion story
China is the Onion of nations.
The US response is so hilarious !
This is the funniest news story in a long time
Theyll claim they can't find it or everything was too damaged to determine anything
Bam! Spot on! Exactly!🎯
After seeing the payload blow into pieces, and knowing that there's nothing of significance to recover, my guess is that they're going to say, Shucks, China was right, it was just a weather balloon. We did the right thing by not destroying it sooner. No State secrets were at risk. Nothing to see here folks forget it ever happened, and remember that Biden is the best pResident ever.
Gonna play dumb
They will claim it was a nuclear baloon. USA wants a war. The citizen demands it.
@@nsebast With only 1 million Americans murdered it was probably filled with a new and improved bioweapon.
I thought Sidewinder missiles homed in on heat sources, what was the heat source on the balloon?
i dont know the specifics, but in that height its quite cold, and all those electronics and solar panels probably generated some heat, so it would be in quite "good contrast" comparing to the air around it.
Probably it wasnt even a normal sidewinder, probably modified somehow to reduce damage, so as much of the electronics can be recovered.
So, they didn't shoot it sooner, then when they shot it down, they didn't have the ships ready to pick the falling debris? Really? I imagine the payload was still attached to part of the balloon and was falling slowly, no?
I'm pretty sure a deflated balloon wouldn't make much of a parachute and the trip down from 60,000 feet would give it plenty of time to deflate. As for not having ships where it was going to fall, you're probably looking at something with the mass of a car falling at near terminal velocity. And while the deflated balloon wouldn't slow it much, it still has a lot of surface area to blow it around on the way down.
Imagine the bad PR if it hit a recovery ship and killed someone. Slim chance, but it could happen. People have been hit by engines falling off airplanes.
Shooting it down over land carries the same risk of hitting someone or maybe it rolls down a mountain and destroys any evidence. Maybe it lands in a forest and they can't see it from the air. Maybe it starts a forest fire. The ocean is somewhat predictable.
Despite all the news reports questioning if the “payload” was attached or not…it was very clear to see that it separated as soon as it was shot and the whole bottom rig dropped offscreen well before the main balloon descended.
@@the_omg3242 maybe it will snow in Atlanta Georgia on July 4th
Are you serious? Like actually? You think a deflated balloon can slow down what was said to be the size of 3 buses? Have you lived on earth for very long? If you were to jump off a cliff you’d be okay because your shirt can act as a parachute right? Cmon dude
@@Aaron1Ayala then why in the world would you send any ship at any time to search for it???????
The pilot didn't say "blast one". He said splash one. That's pilot lingo for when they shoot something down
Yep, if you listen carefully you can easily hear him say splash
did you know that ballon is measuring distance of nukes range !! how far their target location
This is called a distraction and it doesn’t matter . They would have sent all the info via signal. They most likely deleted all the info when it was wirelessly downloaded.
"SO URGENT" 🎶 🎵 🎶 🎵
Marty you're exactly right about this balloon I sure could have used those solar panels and those nifty electronic parts. Is it recycling a good thing 😅🙂
Yea but typical chinese crap quality, made by prisoners and child labor. But you might get a few bucks on Ebay for whatever trinkets are found, particularly from collectors of artifacts.
The US extent of deep state/cabal/shadow govt/officials have actually been with their major guilty responsible cause and role of war/world crimes including collaboration with Israel/Saudi officials/organizations waring and harming parts of surrounding countries, including a significant role with what had been going on in Ukraine. Look up Robert Kennedy Jr., Corbett Report, Amazing Polly, TLAV (thelastamericanvagabond), Stew Peters show; independent reporting on for years; many more and more Americans are calling out the corruption of the US shadow govt/officials etc.
2:50 thanks for letting the cinese know… they know the route it flew
We blocked it and tracked it to learn more and brought it down after seeing where it was going. Never stop your enemy when they are making a mistake. Now we have brought down 2 more.
That was a great test by their government.
Testing what? How stupid China is?
i love how they keep calling it a "SPY BALLOON" when its not confirmed yet
weather Ballons do not carry solar panels.Moreover 3X3 Solar panels weight about 9 to 10 Kgs and 6X6 wights around 80 kgs while this Ballon carried Panels that are of size of 3 Double Decker London buses.There is no way it can be a civilian Ballon
Doesn't matter. It's like someone sending drone over your house to see what you are doing
You can say anything about China without evidence and westoids will believe it
@@marynguyen9365 For me, I will shoot it down with my 300 blackout. For Joe, he'd recommend you guys should take off your cloth. Lolz.
There is phone including voice record inside that it says " nihaau maah"!!
I agree with Michael Clarke's assessment that the Chinese are making a statement to the Philippines and the U.S. over the Philippines allowing the U.S. to come back there after kicking us out decades ago. China has claimed most of the South China Sea area in their 9-DASH line that includes all of the sea and islands, including the Spratly and the Paracel islands.
The CCP's excuse that it deviated off course and they had limited ability to control it is absurd. At the very least, they should've communicated this to the US when the balloon was approaching its sovereign air space.
But the fact that they seemed to have said nothing and just let the balloon enter and float through the entire US continent is a massive red flag.
Balloons have no ability to be controlled. The ones that can be are called dirigibles.
@@nobodyspecial4702 Even so, the CCP should've communicated to the US that a stray balloon was about enter its air space. But it seems like they didn't do that, until it got spotted by a civilian and they went into damage control.
@Mike Studmuffin Based on the way the CCP responded, it sounded like they didn't tell the US beforehand and are only just trying to diffuse the situation after the fact. They could've said something to the effect of "Throughout this whole time, we have been in touch with the US side about this balloon's flight path and where it was headed. We told them at such and such date and time that it was headed for this or that state." But it looks like they didn't do that, unless I've missed something.
Any idea why the US communicate with China prior to doing what Murica does best and blowing it up then?
@@yeadontwearitout Since China didn't communicate with the US before sending the spy balloon into their airspace, I see no reason why the US should have to bend over backwards and communicate with China before blowing it up.
Thanks for a good report. Good job, Frank!
Pointless comment
That had to have been fun lol
Stop bot. It's anything but..
The US extent of deep state/cabal/shadow govt/officials have actually been with their major guilty responsible cause and role of war/world crimes including collaboration with Israel/Saudi officials/organizations waring and harming parts of surrounding countries, including a significant role with what had been going on in Ukraine. Look up Robert Kennedy Jr., Corbett Report, Amazing Polly, TLAV (thelastamericanvagabond), Stew Peters show; independent reporting on for years; many more and more Americans are calling out the corruption of the US shadow govt/officials etc.
Why would he do a Shitty report ?
Pretty sure it's "Splash One" and not blast one when a fighter pilot hits a target.
When a sidewinder middle hits it usually explodes..
Love and peace all countries all countries and no war God bless🙏🙏
excuse me, could you let us navy withdraw 20+ military bases along Chinese coast?
May supreme lord Joe Biden bathe in the blood of every man woman and child of the world. And drink from there skulls.
Amen.
Amen Sister ! But with Weak Ass Biden In Charge ! He should just keep Cowering in the Basement ! Like usual !
Something about this whole happening seems like a distraction?!
George Santos is VERY relieved at this news cycle.
Spotting something at 12 miles up is near impossible in reality. Even getting a pic would be U2 level type camera they sell those in Montana I guess.
The balloon is for climate research. Three Chinese balloons went over US when trump was the president. Now the polarization of the politics just can’t let a balloon go. Gotta make a big deal of anything from China😂
Its a ploy by the global warming people. A balloon naturally floating from Alaska to South Carolina because of the -108 F polar vortex over Mount Washington will eventually be known as the root cause.
Of which they will say that mankind has messed up the weather, which is probably true.
@@441rider Except commertial jets fly at 45k ft all the time, and have fusalages much narrower than this baloon. Wouldn't take more than a 10x strap-on lense for a cell phone to see it.
It's almost as funny as Skylab falling anyone remember Skylab
So we absolutely refuse to share the earth and the air.
Getting a heavy twilight zone vibe from this.
It's funny how China claimed it was weather research.... happens to pass through a lot of important military bases, and they say we are overreacting 🤣
正常心态吧，美国侦察机每天都在中国周边飞，这事不用紧张，和平第一。🤩
So does wind.
@战忽局小号 I get what you mean, but what would you have done in our situation 🤔
@@dominiquemarquez8264 我们会想办法把它捕捉下来，然后山寨一百个，到网上出售卖给美国人民🤭。
They play the same games at the DMV when they cut in front of the long line of people waiting their turn.
Kind of sets the tone fer how future response will be carried out by, china an others based on this play, watch an learn
So the people who told you it was no problem with little urgency are now telling you it's urgent. Checks out.
...So why not just peirce the balloon so it decends slower resulting in a more intact device to inspect? Am I missing something obvious?
Descending slowly means it takes hours or days to land, and ends up landing in the middle of the ocean. Then it can sink miles underwater and become much harder or impossible to recover.
@@appleintosh I guess that makes sense, I assume the price of the rocket, and subsequent search time makes it about the same price as a recovery out at sea though but I'm sure it was very throughly thought through.
@@devonmcnealy8900 It was.
@@devonmcnealy8900 I don’t think the military is very concerned about the price here, they wanted the most reliable option. And a missile is a very reliable way to bring down something in the air.
when y'all stare at sky there is always something going on beneath your feet
China sure seems concerned about their 'weather balloon', don't they?
Pretty excesive for using a raptor and a sidewinder for a balloon. They should have acted earlier
show of force
@@ssnkkk After they gave China everything they wanted to see. Lol
Acting earlier means shooting it down over US land, where it has the possibility of landing on someone’s house, or landing on someone’s property who then makes a big protest about letting the government come and take the balloon.
Who would've thought that the most powerful nation on this planet (arguably) would be in the news just for popping a balloon? Ladies and Gentlemen, we live in strange times.
Your a strange time.
@@erickuribe9860very iNteLlIGeNt reply good job 👏 🏅
Ehhh you know. I'm a comedian what can I say.😏
@@Dsadsasasad I know. I just looked at it from a different perspective.
even china's randomly ranking 50th city like guiyang or nanning is as advanced as us's best city newyork. how can the us be the most poweful country anymore lol.
If this becomes the norm then the air force should acquire a specialist tool for the job, a high-flying drone with a grabber
Yes I agree ! At each aircraft , at the Nose of it should Be a Giant Straight Pin !
@@stevesanzari7294 lol yea
i still say the f22 call sign should have been pin 1 not frank
Let's take a walk on the beach to collect sea shells and spy balloon fragments.
🤣🤣🤣
“ there’s nothing there , there “ . “ they’re not bad folks, folks “ .
Lmfao. 🤣👍
They should of used weights and a grappling hook ala star wars and brought it down into somewhere controlled lol.
Godbless america 🇺🇲 protect the country love democracy....more power
Subterfuge - make it seem like you haven't found it; like you weren't able to track it initially. Art of War to appear weak when you are strong
Question: Why not poke a few holes in it with the guns and let it come down as slow as possible to keep it intact as much as possible?
Why didn't they fly some drones with cameras up to it to do a full photographic inventory of it before destroying it?
Most drones can't reach that height
I dont think you understand how thin the air is at 58,000ft.
Because it was at 56,000 feet, which is higher than most jets can fly
@MrGriff305 which is why the scheming Chinese are using "Weather" ballons.
It was all captured by satellite before it was destroyed.
Good luck USAF good job 💪💪💪💪
The US extent of deep state/cabal/shadow govt/officials have actually been with their major guilty responsible cause and role of war/world crimes including collaboration with Israel/Saudi officials/organizations waring and harming parts of surrounding countries, including a significant role with what had been going on in Ukraine. Look up Robert Kennedy Jr., Corbett Report, Amazing Polly, TLAV (thelastamericanvagabond), Stew Peters show; independent reporting on for years; many more and more Americans are calling out the corruption of the US shadow govt/officials etc.
Good job ? Lol it was a balloon, little Johnny could have done it with his bow and arrow set 🤣
They wait till it made its route and was on its way out, then brag like their heroes, friggin ret@rds if you ask me
But definitely not the U-2 pilot that was shot down over Soviet Union 😁
@@Muirton66 Don't mind him it was his medication speaking that his psychiatrist prescribed
It's
"Frank 1 SPLASH one!
That is a CLEAN kill."
And I am a Chinese from China, not even fluid in English... Just how do you literally miss the transmission so much... It's your native language...😶
The audio is "Splash one, good kill" not blast or take