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Because the device fell into a relatively shallow area, which has an estimated depth of 47 feet, the recovery mission is expected to be "fairly easy," one official stated. However, officials said there was no estimate for the length of the mission.

I'm ready to go dive the new wreck.

I've done many dives off the NC and SC coast. Always preferred the deeper wrecks to the shallow ones. 90'+ is always warmer and clearer water than the closer in shallow stuff. When you get further offshore you get the gulf stream which brings warmer water up through the Atlantic.

Faux outrage from the commies. Typical leftist behavior- start some shit, then accuse the other side of being the problem.

China fumes after US pops its balloon, warns of possible ‘responses’ to ‘clear overreaction’

I think a couple hundred rounds of 20mm would perforate the envelope enough to have fall pretty fast.

God Bless !!!

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Originally posted by TMats:
Our once great nation is being led by a bunch of baboons

I'm thinking baboons in charge might be an improvement.

A thought occurred to me tonight: what if this “spy balloon” was a red herring and it really was only a test of our military response which was absolutely slow and pathetic. What if China is getting ready to move on Taiwan and wanted to get a gauge of how fast we’d respond so they’d know how fast to roll in there.

If this was a test, we failed miserably and China now knows we’ll most likely sit back and do nothing if they invade Taiwan.

Yikes

it is CNN, but a good video of the shoot down

link:

https://www.cnn.com/videos/wor...acostanr-vpx-sot.cnn

I'm not sure the got the right ballon (maybe they did) but this came down near our house.

You know, these balloons are in a gross but definite way maneuverable. If you have control over altitude, and a well-established knowledge of general wind patterns...

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Originally posted by PASig:
A thought occurred to me tonight: what if this “spy balloon” was a red herring and it really was only a test of our military response which was absolutely slow and pathetic. What if China is getting ready to move on Taiwan and wanted to get a gauge of how fast we’d respond so they’d know how fast to roll in there.

If this was a test, we failed miserably and China now knows we’ll most likely sit back and do nothing if they invade Taiwan.

Yikes

A trial balloon of sorts.

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Originally posted by trapper189:
I’m on pins and needles waiting to find out how they explain that one.

They probably will not attempt to explain anything about it. Like other issues, they will just ignore it. There is no adequate explanation for their letting the balloon travel across the entire USA before taking it down, over land so we could see what equipment it was carrying. A whole lot of sensitive information was lost. Not surprising to me.

If a few rounds of 20mm pierced both sides of that balloon, it'd have come down plenty quick. What a fiasco. I'm really shocked they felt they needed this. Between satellites and cyber, and frankly, just flying people over and renting cars at Alamo, what the hell more could this be doing?

Biden sure as fuck made for damn sure they gathered everything they needed.

I wonder if it had a fortune cookie attached? We should send them a balloon with a box of Cracker Jack.

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Originally posted by TMats:
Our once great nation is being led by a bunch of baboons

Green spider monkeys, the tree rats of Africa.


Baboons are strong, troop centric, and dangerous.

I'm thinking BUFFOONS as in clowns, NOT baboons!

Used in a sentence...They are simply incompetent buffoons who have no idea what they are doing! Just Sayin'

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Faux outrage from the commies. Typical leftist behavior- start some shit, then accuse the other side of being the problem.

China fumes after US pops its balloon, warns of possible ‘responses’ to ‘clear overreaction’

We know how this game works from here. China is going to shoot down something of ours allegedly in Chinese airspace, probably, manned, and then shit will begin to escalate from there. China is claiming ‘we all do this’ to each other, we all know that we do this to each other, and the US overreacted when the press found out and began to run with it. I have zero problem believing any of that by the way.

It’s being reported that the DOD is claiming that this happened 3 times during the Trump era and he didn’t do anything about it.

1: Until someone can legit explain to me why we should allow a craft from another nation to violate our airspace with the obvious intent of spying, then shame on him if true.

2: I don’t care who stands in front of a podium anymore; I don’t believe what you tell me. If “and that’s a pretty big if”, this did happen multiple times during the Trump term, I have very difficult time believing that someone would not have leaked that info to the press to make Trump look foolish or weak.