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Do you honestly think shooting down a balloon in your own airspace is an aggressive act?
by BobbyJo 4y ago
Do you honestly think shooting down a balloon in your own airspace is an aggressive act?
- throwaway4good 4y agoThree public shoot downs certainly signals something new.
- BobbyJo 4y agoNew, yes, but that doesn't answer my question. I don't see this as anymore aggressive than yearly war games, and significantly less aggressive than claiming islands and ocean territories that are contested and building military installations on them...
- jamiek88 4y agoYes it suggests our military has the right to defend our sovereign airspace and that of our allies as well as the ability and will to do so until these outrageous and arrogant acts of escalation stop. Be careful how many times you prod the beast.
- jfengel 4y agoIt suggests that there is something new in the air, deliberately obscuring its source and mission.
- irthomasthomas 4y agoYes. Given that they have allowed free passage of such weather balloons for decades previously.
- BobbyJo 4y agoIt wasn't a weather balloon. Weather balloon don't do high precision EM signals collection, so your reasoning here is completely made up.
- irthomasthomas 4y agoEvidence etc?
- nuggets_ 4y agoI recommend that you expend the tiny bit of effort required to inform yourself, rather than asking others to spoon-feed you.
- irthomasthomas 4y agoI tried but couldn't find any evidence. Thanks for your useful advice though.
- BobbyJo 4y ago> "It had multiple antennas to include an array likely capable of collecting and geolocating communications," the official added. https://www.ft.com/content/96992b83-58f7-4cdb-9900-a2bc59677ebf https://www.ft.com/content/96992b83-58f7-4cdb-9900-a2bc59677...
- irthomasthomas 4y agoIt had multiple antennas? Holy cow that's bad. That definitely rules out weather balloons then.
- BobbyJo 4y agoDoes it not? Or are you being sincere?
- irthomasthomas 4y agoSorry for the sarcasm, but, honestly, I think it's pretty obvious to most adults that an aerial, or even multiple aerials on a balloon does not rule out it being a weather balloon.