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Originally Posted by Aktungbby
It does have sophisticated methods: Our USINT tech has spotted them, incl. this one, launching from Hainan. Given the powerful "atmospheric river" winds lately contributing to heavy weather, the Chinese at least have 'plausible deniability' for their alleged 'force majeure'. As in my post above, we launched approx 510 General Mills balloons over Communist nations in 1956. When challenged, John Foster Dulles "lied thru his teeth" that the balloons were not 'necessarily military related' just as the Chinese are doing 70 odd years later!!? As before, we should simply shoot them down quietly w/o all the press related fanfare. Their sattelites already get the job done as do ours. The value added of helium-Intel gathering is minimal at best.
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I was completely unaware of our using balloons in this fashion. I agree the balloons should be shot down, should we encounter anymore. That's after gleening any intelligence we can from them.