Now “Operation Make Grandpa Look Like A Tough Guy” kicks into overdrive

Moar Aviators by RayBan …

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Originally posted by Skull Leader:
How much does an AIM-9X cost?

Who makes the stuff they are built from? Maybe I need to buy some stock...

Isn’t it amazing what a week of criticism will do?

Now they’re a regular Johnny On The Spot about all this stuff, by God

BREAKING: NORAD monitoring 'one or two' potential spy balloons over North America

Ok, yet a third HAO ('high altitude object') shot down over Canada? It's getting monotonous now...

Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says US shot down 'high altitude airborne object' over North America

The unidentified object over Canada comes the day after the United States shot down an unknown object in Alaska

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The Biden administration said Saturday that it was actively monitoring an airborne object over Canada shortly before Canada announced it had been shot down by the U.S. military.

"I ordered the take down of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace," Trudeau tweeted. "@NoradCommand shot down the object over the Yukon. Canadian and U.S. aircraft were scrambled, and a U.S. F-22 successfully fired at the object."

Fox News

That Trudeau is one bad mamma jammah, ain't he? Right now, he's probably sitting around with his buddies after tuning their motorcyles. Got his smokes rolled up in the sleeve of his T-shirt and they're all throwing back the Johnnie Walker. Later on, they'll go out to a bar and Trudeau will kick some pussy's ass.

All the girls want get with him, all the men want to be him. And some of the girls, too- they want to be him.

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Ok, yet a third HAO ('high altitude object') shot down over Canada? It's getting monotonous now...

Oh, I get it...HAO. The balloon is Chinese. It's just saying "Ni Hao" (hello).

Gaslighting

I feel like China is not doing itself any favors with this kind of stuff. On the off chance the FBI- corrupt and enemies of the American people they have become- actually find evidence that the balloon shot down last week did contain surveillance equipment and they can produce clear evidence of this to the public, China is going to come off looking very bad in this incident which now has the world's attention.

I've said for years, China can't afford to go to war with us. With all the crap we buy, that's made in China, it would destroy their economy.

Excellent point. Sadly, I think that no longer being able to import Chinese crap is the only way we have any chance of weaning ourselves off of it.

We had better start learning once again to manufacture computer chips.

Zeihan has weighed in repeatedly on the pending implosion of the Chinese economy; they rely on the US for naval safe passage globally and of course our technology. Not to mention they have a massive population problem; that balloon is about to burst too

I doubt that the FBI is the actual lead investigation agency. More like agents and techs from No Such Agency aka No Signals Allowed along with techs from the Tech Division of the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency, would have the expertise needed to identify, analyze recovered equipment and debris. It is really easy to throw on an FBI jacket, along with a pair of 511 pants.

If it is only the FBI, then the whole recovery and investigation will be politically fucked.

So the FAA briefly closed down the airspace around here for less than an hour.

https://www.reuters.com/world/...tivities-2023-02-12/

Representative Matt Rosendale

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"I am in direct contact with NORCOM and monitoring the latest issue over Havre and the northern border," Rosendale tweeted before the FAA rescinded the no flight order. "Airspace is closed due to an object that could interfere with commercial air traffic — the DOD will resume efforts to observe and ground the object in the morning."

Are we all getting jumpy now?

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Originally posted by jsbcody:
If it is only the FBI, then the whole recovery and investigation will be politically fucked.

Yes. Grease the hole, insert the pole.

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Originally posted by Plugugly:

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Originally posted by Skull Leader:
How much does an AIM-9X cost?

Who makes the stuff they are built from? Maybe I need to buy some stock...

Raytheon, Boeing, Olin, federal, Winchester, GE, Honeywell, General Dynamic, Lockheed Martin

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Originally posted by Slippery Pete:
US launches ICBM into Pacific? Unarmed, that's no fun.

Col. Christopher Cruise, commander of the 377th Test and Evaluation Group, said in the news release that the launch showcased the “reliability of our strategic deterrence systems while sending a visible message of assurance to allies.”

https://www.stripes.com/theate...bm-test-9102809.html


Col Christopher Cruise has a great ring to it. Especially for a guy in charge of missiles. Imagine the jokes, the puns that must go around that office.

Many moons ago as a young LT I got a chance to watch one of those launches. It was pretty damn cool.

Perfect.

It was probably just Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach sneezing on the radar screen again.

U.S. Military Unable To Find Alleged Object That Caused FAA To Close Airspace In Montana

The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and the U.S. Northern Command released a statement late on Saturday night about a supposed unidentified object that they identified over Montana, saying that fighter jets were not able to locate the object.

“NORAD detected a radar anomaly and sent fighter aircraft to investigate,” that statement said. “Those aircraft did not identify any object to correlate to the radar hits. NORAD will continue to monitor the situation.”

The statement came after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) sent a notice to airmen (NOTAM) late Saturday night warning that it had designated an area in the northern part of Montana as a “national defense airspace” and that anyone who entered the airspace would be intercepted.

The incident occurred after a U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor shot down an unidentified object over Canada Saturday afternoon after gaining authorization from Canadian officials. The U.S. military shot down another unidentified object off the coast of Alaska Friday afternoon.

All of this comes after the U.S. military shot down a Chinese spy balloon last weekend off the coast of South Carolina using an F-22 Raptor. The fighter jet fired an air-to-air AIM-9X Sidewinder missile from 58,000 feet to down the surveillance threat. The decision to shoot down the spy balloon came after President Joe Biden allowed it to fly thousands of miles over the continental U.S.

https://www.dailywire.com/news...-airspace-in-montana

In ONE week, the F22 Raptor airplane has now shot down THREE “objects” over North America. WTF?!

That plane could probably go 3,4,9 years without any real action and never having to fire its weapons and in one damn week it shoots down three objects??!! What the hell is going on?