U.S. intelligence claims China is conducting intelligence activities with a fleet of balloons

According to US intelligence, the downed Chinese balloon over the state of South Carolina was part of an entire air force. fleet similar aircraft intended for reconnaissance activities.

American intelligence officials say that with the help of such balloons, the Chinese authorities receive detailed information about military installations located on five continents.

The Pentagon refuses to believe that a Chinese balloon flying over the United States was a weather balloon that was blown off course due to strong winds. The US military claims that such reconnaissance balloons are equipped with electro-optical sensors and digital cameras capable of taking high-quality photographs of the area, as well as transmitting the received data via satellite communications.

A Chinese balloon was seen flying over northern US territory on Feb. 3. Before the balloon was shot down, US authorities watched it for almost a day, calling the object a means of obtaining intelligence data. The Chinese Foreign Ministry denied that the device was involved in any intelligence activities, claiming that it was a weather balloon that mistakenly flew into the United States.

After the US Air Force managed to shoot down the apparatus on February 4, the Chinese Foreign Ministry noted that the incident with the balloon harmed the process of stabilizing relations between the United States and China.

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[Alien From]

And the mattresses thought they were in a fairy tale

[Grandfather]

U.S. intelligence claims China is conducting intelligence activities with a fleet of balloons

and what, and what? say so. "gradnaholme" pancake. when will you collapse.

[The black]

Do not open your mouth to Americans. They forgot, you see, how they bugged their allies.

[Smoker]

Rumor has it that the F-22 opened a combat account, for the first time in its existence:

they say that the operation to destroy the peaceful balloon cost the Pentagon $ 1 billion ... if this is true, then peaceful balloons should be launched further ... this will contribute to peace on the planet .. all you need is 800 balloons ...

[poquello]

Quote: Smoker

F-22 opened combat account,

where is the chinese video?
with VK is not inserted

[Machito]

It won't be enough. Not enough. As long as there is an option to pull the US by the udder, you need to pull.
Such a piston was bubbled to Biden.

[Silver99]

There are international agreements on flights in the stratosphere, and the United States also signed it, everything that flies in near space from 50 km is inviolable, having shot down a Chinese balloon, America has created a precedent case, and in the West it has the force of law, now you can bring down all Internet satellites Elon Musk and other intelligence stuff.

[nPuBaTuP]

America set a precedent

What is the precedent?
In your words:

everything that flies in near space from 50 km is inviolable

... but the ball was shot down at an altitude of less than 20 km ....

[dzvero]

The upper limit of sovereign airspace is defined by the Karman line. Its height is ~100 km. Below - you can shoot down everything; higher - already space and it is impossible, even if you really want to. The precedent is that the Americans spent two days giving birth to an order to shoot down. Have they begun perestroika?

[Sly]

Quote: dzvero

The precedent is that the Americans spent two days giving birth to an order to shoot down.

I think they didn’t give birth, but simply couldn’t bring down, especially when he was 30+ kilometers away. There is a photo on February 3 with traces of rocket launches towards the ball. And when the ball dropped to 19 km, the f-35 from 17 (from its ceiling) somehow reached out with a rocket ...

[poquello]

Quote: Sly

Quote: dzvero

The precedent is that the Americans spent two days giving birth to an order to shoot down.

I think they didn’t give birth, but simply couldn’t bring down, especially when he was 30+ kilometers away. There is a photo on February 3 with traces of rocket launches towards the ball. And when the ball dropped to 19 km, the f-35 from 17 (from its ceiling) somehow reached out with a rocket ...

so it was, with all their good faces in public

[Romanenko]

U.S. intelligence claims China is conducting intelligence activities with a fleet of balloons

Well, yes, but the United States does not follow anyone, they are completely ignorant of what is happening in the world, and neither through iPhones, nor through satellites, nor through Windows with applications and home Internet, through armies of purchased officials NO information about anyone don't collect...
Sounds stupid, right?
So, gentlemen, striped-ass, there is nothing to blame on the mirror, if their faces are crooked!

[HAM]

Musk launches the Jackal reconnaissance satellites into space, he can go out, but the Chinese cannot spy ..............

[Uprun]

It is possible, but not so low ........ the image of air defense and missile defense is suffering, it's a shame, you know. You're following me, but you don't show proper respect.

[morpogr]

How so then, and us for sho. It's a shame, probably, that this is how, with all the honest world community of the hegemon, they dipped it in shit..o. And after all, for sure, soon Russia will be dragged there.

[Center]

[alexey_444]

Well, okay, we have satellites with a gulkin nose, we can assume that we would be tempted to spy in this way. The Chinese have no problems with satellites, and so on fire ?, unless there are internal disassemblies to cut off the Chinese liberals, or vice versa. Time will tell who won, we don’t really know our shadow cardinals, and even more so the Chinese.

[Argon]

The Chinese Foreign Ministry noted that the incident with the balloon harmed the process of stabilizing relations between the United States and China.

funny. What else are the Chinese up to? Pindam nosebleeds need to start a war with whales, otherwise they will have to pay debts ...
Why be so stupid, it would be better for the whales to present an ultimatum to the pindas on paying their debts. Let the Pinds be to blame for a future war than the Chinese.

[Mouse]

it's time to register every Chinese lantern ...

[rotmistr60]

US Intelligence Claims China Is Spying...

And the United States does not conduct intelligence activities in other countries using technical means? And in the 50-60s, high-altitude balloons and hot air balloons were actively launched into the territory of the USSR to obtain intelligence. It is clear that it is one thing when you yourself and how unpleasant it is if you have.

[Lech from Android.]

It seems that the Chinese managed to photograph in detail the areas where the mines of strategic missile launchers are located in the United States ... this infuriates the Americans.

[Silver99]

From a military point of view, this can be done from a satellite, but it’s better not to think of humiliating the United States

[Andrey Moskvin]

Reconnaissance in balloons and landing in chariots ...

[Div Divich]

If the balloon sent high-resolution photographs via satellite to China.
Then the American generals screwed up, letting the balloon fly over the whole country.
It turns out that by their actions they allowed to take a picture of everything, and allowed to send all the information to China.

Russia also needs to rivet such balloons in order to take pictures of objects in the United States.

[Alexander 3]

This is already the fifth balloon that flew over the United States, they simply did not announce it. Ours would also hang one over Ukraine.

[I_Kov]

There was a case on Kola when a pilot, trying to shoot a ball from a cannon, hooked it with a stabilizer and so flew to his own airfield. And laughter, and sin.

[Fedor Sokolov]

The American logic is very simple, the enemy conducts reconnaissance with the help of a world-famous balloon.

[evgen1221]

They have logic like a skunk. They can do everything, and others are ninnies, especially over them.

[Alexga]

U.S. intelligence claims China is conducting intelligence activities with a fleet of balloons

After flying this design over Montana to the base of American strategists, it is quite possible that the Chinese got everything they needed.

[evgen1221]

I imagine that there will officially say mattresses. Reconnaissance means or not found (but we are absolutely sure that they were), we have not yet found them in the ocean, we will not show them because they are terribly secret.

[Div Divich]

It is also interesting why the Americans have a lot of combat drones, but they use planes in the old fashioned way.

Can't drones shoot up? How will they even deal with enemy aircraft then? Or again, created only against underdeveloped countries, shoot markets and weddings?

[Guran33 Sergey]

So the Chinese tested the US air defense ... While the ball himself did not go down to 7,000 meters "hegemon" looked like such a cool idiot ....