Days late. It supposedly touched down in less than 50’ of water.
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Chinese spy balloon floating over US
- Thread starter Blitzkrieg
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I suppose that's better than disintegrating on the ground in Podunk, Montana.
At least we can analyze what it was carrying better.
It would be kinda cool if the squadron from Shaw took it out as they are the Fighting Gamecocks.
This might be a trial run for Covid 20.
FurmanCock
Grand Poohbah
Probably just trying to get a peek inside The Doll House.
Surfside Beach was the end of the line for the spy balloon. Best takeout ever.
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"Swamp Foxes"....they are at McEntire.
Shaw: "Gamblers", "Tigers", & "Fighting 55th".
Sorry for being a know-it-all...I used to work at Shaw.
The F-22 almost certainly was from Langley, VA.
The War of Balloon Aggression is over.
They are highly upset with us about shooting this down. Now tell my why they would be upset that we shot down a "civilian weather balloon". I think they know they are getting ready to be caught in a lie and will say whatever we say we find out will be propaganda. I remember they shot down one of our surveillance planes claiming it was in their air space. Well the balloon was clearly in ours so the precedent was already set.
For some reason I thought these guys were based at Shaw over the years:
65th Aggressor Squadron - Wikipedia
Either them or some element of the WW2 USAAF 57th Fighter Group.
BTW, the 65th Aggressor Squadron was reactivated with F-35s on 9 June 2022.
So the Fighting Cocks are back!
This was no "weather" balloon and the Chinese knew exactly where it was going. It should have been shot down as soon as it was detected. Heck Canada should have shot it down.
The Chinese (and Russians, N Koreans, Iran etc) understand strength and weakness. Part of this exercise for them was to see how quickly we'd react. They are at war with us and they play a very long range strategic game.
It's the 19th FS. They were flying Vipers at Shaw for a few years, next F-15C/D in Alaska, & now in Honolulu as a Raptor squadron.
Cool squadron patch. Notice the colors of the bird.
