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why would the chinese take the insane risk of testing an experimental drone in US airspace and near US fighters during a training exercise...

Barrin92 7y ago
why the hell would aliens take that risk
- starpilot 7y ago
  We are ants. It's no risk.
- sundvor 7y ago
  If they have that sort of capability then the fighter aircraft would have appeared to be in slow motion to them.
dragonsky67 7y ago
Easy. You have a fancy new technology that is borderline supernatural, what better way to make use of it that to have your adversary dismiss it as bird poo, ball lightning or some other system bug. Wave it under their nose enough and it becomes like banner adds on a web page, they just don't notice it any more. When you need to use the tech in anger, your may see you coming, but they will dismiss you as just another of those strange glitches that get reported all the time.
- krapp 7y ago
  >Wave it under their nose enough and it becomes like banner adds on a web page, they just don't notice it any more. >When you need to use the tech in anger, your may see you coming, but they will dismiss you as just another of those strange glitches that get reported all the time. That's the way cynics the internet mught behave, that's not the way the military or intelligence agencies behave.
dontbenebby 7y ago
Why would the Americans take the insane risk of overflying Soviet territory? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_U-2_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_U-2_incident
- hendzen 7y ago
  Thanks - I’m very familiar with the U2 program. Stealthy reconnaissance missions at 70k ft are very different than trolling a squadron of F22s at 30k ft and lower during a known training mission.
  - dontbenebby 7y ago
    Were they "stealthy"? Or just assumed to be too high to be shot down? (Which did end up happening)
    - hendzen 7y ago
      Fair point, though as far as I know they didn’t intentionally troll soviet fighter jets.

Barrin92 7y ago

why the hell would aliens take that risk

starpilot 7y ago
We are ants. It's no risk.
sundvor 7y ago
If they have that sort of capability then the fighter aircraft would have appeared to be in slow motion to them.

dragonsky67 7y ago

Easy. You have a fancy new technology that is borderline supernatural, what better way to make use of it that to have your adversary dismiss it as bird poo, ball lightning or some other system bug. Wave it under their nose enough and it becomes like banner adds on a web page, they just don't notice it any more. When you need to use the tech in anger, your may see you coming, but they will dismiss you as just another of those strange glitches that get reported all the time.

krapp 7y ago
>Wave it under their nose enough and it becomes like banner adds on a web page, they just don't notice it any more. >When you need to use the tech in anger, your may see you coming, but they will dismiss you as just another of those strange glitches that get reported all the time. That's the way cynics the internet mught behave, that's not the way the military or intelligence agencies behave.

dontbenebby 7y ago

Why would the Americans take the insane risk of overflying Soviet territory? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_U-2_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_U-2_incident

hendzen 7y ago
Thanks - I’m very familiar with the U2 program. Stealthy reconnaissance missions at 70k ft are very different than trolling a squadron of F22s at 30k ft and lower during a known training mission.
- dontbenebby 7y ago
  Were they "stealthy"? Or just assumed to be too high to be shot down? (Which did end up happening)
  - hendzen 7y ago
    Fair point, though as far as I know they didn’t intentionally troll soviet fighter jets.