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US tracking large Chinese spy balloon flying across the country, officials say
- metadat 4y agoRelated WaPo submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34634304 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34634304
- hunglee2 4y agoits kind of pathetic to use a dirigible to conduct spying operations, how can China claim to be a great power using tech like this? US has Maxar, which has accurately photographed military installations, test centres and missile silos with metre precision, deep into the Chinese territory, all via satellite imagery
- jackvalentine 4y agoIf it costs less, achieves the same job and also gets your adversary to freak out a bit why not use ‘lesser’ technology?
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- Overtonwindow 4y agoHigh altitude is a point I hope is made loudly. Otherwise.. I imagine a lot of Americans' will be looking to the sky and may take a shot at something.