They shot it down ,,,,,
Watching it falling, now on TV ,,,,,,, Sic-em
Saying now U S missile took it down or fighter plane.
A white ‘contrail’ in the background.
Uncle Joe just said (1.29pm MST), he told the military to shoot it down Wednesday, and the military said to wait until over water.
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Where was it when they hit it?
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montanajoe: 33165078605211/comments/33165054173851
Where was it when they hit it?
Off SC is where they are filming it.
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Got ya.
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The shoot down is on youtube.
Looks like a lot of junk falling with it.
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So it traveled across the USA to the atlantic. Mission acomplished.
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cbxjeff: 33165078605211/comments/33165079620251
So it traveled across the USA to the atlantic. Mission acomplished.
Yes. They had to wait to make sure all the intel was gathered, sent back to, and received by China. Then shoot it down.
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Tom Cruise will now do a ‘fly by’ on uncle Joe’s location. ,,,,,,,,, Bwahahaha,,,,,,,🤣
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I heard when they recovered it, they found a fortune inside. It said " You'll never be rich and you'll never be poor."
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jimdeere, do you mean fortune cookie?
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Just Biden trying to save face in the eyes of stupid Biden voters. It accomplished nothing after the info had already been gathered and transmitted back to China. Now any intelligence we could have gotten on the technology will just sink into the sea, just as it probably would have if left to leave our airspace. Should have been done much earlier.
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oh by the way it was filled with the lasted version of the China improved disease
any odds on long it would take China to shoot down a balloon over there area
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Ole North Korean Kim Jong-un is taking notes, he'll now forget his expensive missile testing program and start a cheaper balloon program. Biden and his Joint Chiefs I'm afraid are already beholding to China and on their payroll, same as Hunter, it's becoming more clear each day. We're in deep trouble people and need to watch each others back....somehow ???
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data uploaded to the icloud first
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They waited for two reasons, didn't want to risk injury to people on the ground and recovering it in the water would cause much less damage to the payload. waiting also allowed time to coordinate the shoot down with the Navy so that the balloon will basically fall into their laps.
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Don't disregard the possibility that it was nothing but a publicity stunt to make Biden look "tough". Instead it made him look incompetent by letting it pass totally across the US before taking action.
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They tell me the American people voted for this dumpster fire.
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🙃
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Since we don't know what the payload was, I am glad they waited for it to be off the coast. I am still not sure what the point was shooting it down but the news stations played the tape of the shoot down for about 3 hours non-stop. It took us a sidewinder missile fired from an F22 to knock down a modern version of 200 year old tech. I guess the Pentagon didn't want to be accused of not using a big enough gun. Let's see, no defensive weapons, can't maneuver, barely moving unarmored big bag of gas, yupp... let's use a state of the art F22 Raptor and a sidewinder. Bob
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Don't laugh, 200 year old technology will put people in the ground forever. I'm glad to see our high-tech weapons being used, that's what they're for.......our protection.
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I bet it made the pilot's day.....😁
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William81: 33165078605211/comments/33165114732059
I bet it made the pilot's day.....😁
Made China's day too, they now know our F-22 fighter can easily climb to 55,000 + feet 😠
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bullshot: 33165078605211/comments/33165126822299
They waited for two reasons, didn't want to risk injury to people on the ground and recovering it in the water would cause much less damage to the payload. waiting also allowed time to coordinate the shoot down with the Navy so that the balloon will basically fall into their laps.
Also, there was likely some counter-collection opportunities to exploit while it was still operating prior to shoot-down.
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BobJudy: 33165078605211/comments/33165128223899
Since we don't know what the payload was, I am glad they waited for it to be off the coast. I am still not sure what the point was shooting it down but the news stations played the tape of the shoot down for about 3 hours non-stop. It took us a sidewinder missile fired from an F22 to knock down a modern version of 200 year old tech. I guess the Pentagon didn't want to be accused of not using a big enough gun. Let's see, no defensive weapons, can't maneuver, barely moving unarmored big bag of gas, yupp... let's use a state of the art F22 Raptor and a sidewinder. Bob
Not sure there are really any low-tech options for taking something out at 60,000 feet.
That said, I’m sure there are some Internet threads floating around that will assure us the 6.5 Creedmoor could do it. 😁
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@...: 33165078605211/comments/33165128027291
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With a double barrel shot gun !!!
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Right, William81. From his back porch I hear.
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Yupper, they shot it down AFTER it had gathered all the information possible OR spread all the genetically engineered biological 'fall out' it carried.
Again, I ask why 'it' was even allowed to enter US air space?
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Frogdog: 33165078605211/comments/33165115957915
https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/comment/11377805#Comment_11377805
Not sure there are really any low-tech options for taking something out at 60,000 feet.
That said, I’m sure there are some Internet threads floating around that will assure us the 6.5 Creedmoor could do it. 😁
At least use a period piece from 200 years ago like a Kentucky long rifle.😁
I guess my point in my above post was that we had no alternative but to use state of the art tech to counter 200 year old tech. I hope when they find the pieces, it was worth it. I am not worried about biological fallout that was mentioned above. Any information it could have gathered could, and probably is, already being gathered by their spy satellites. Anything that is missed by those satellites is probably being gathered by the 10's of thousands of Chinese here in the country, like the thousands of students and businesspeople. So other than as a test to see what we would do, I don't get the point of sending a "spy" balloon. Bob
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Mobuck: 33165078605211/comments/33165107596187
Yupper, they shot it down AFTER it had gathered all the information possible OR spread all the genetically engineered biological 'fall out' it carried.
Again, I ask why 'it' was even allowed to enter US air space?
Now you know he had to wait until the money hit his account first...
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They waited so everyone would see it
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