NEW: Balloon down! Biden doesn't care....
Update. The U.S. shoot-down was too little, too late, and there is MORE.
Shoot it down. Now.
Just like Russia did years ago with the Gary Powers U2.
Satellite surveillance is legal under International Treaty. We must not allow this balloon weapon to become a precedent. China has hyper-sonic missiles that we can't defend against, and this balloon weapon will allow precise targeting of our strategic forces. China could -- and would -- take them all out with a first strike.
Also, YES, such balloons could also be platforms for EMP weapons to take down our power grid, communications, computers, transportation, etc. So could satellites and missiles, but the advantage of a balloon platform might be that you could take down the grid without a missile strike or, perhaps, without taking out other satellites. Also, the balloon has demonstrated that it can maneuver, which allows better targeting and more options. For example, you could intimidate by small attacks, or rolling attacks.
My old novel Raven's Run discusses such a threat. Our newer books (non-fiction -- My co-author is MG Paul Vallely who knows this stuff, and was the head military analyst for Fox several years after he retired) discuss more modern threats, like Mind War, which has been VERY successful against America.
A precision guided hyper-sonic Chinese missile would not even need a warhead, much less a nuclear warhead, to take out our missile silos. The amount of energy release, falling from orbital height, would be, ah, astronomical. Energy = Mass times velocity SQUARED. Even if we had anything left to respond with, it would have to be nuclear, and WE would be, technically, the aggressor, starting a nuclear war.
Chinese state-owned television aired footage of a high-altitude balloon dropping hypersonic weapons in 2018.
The stunning footage displays a high-altitude balloon, not dissimilar from the one that traversed over the United States last week, carrying three hypersonic glide vehicles (HGVs) into high altitude and dropping them for testing.
Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported on the weapons test in September 2018. The footage has since been deleted from Chinese media, but photographs and short clips can still be found online.
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The Secret Speech of General Chi Haotian – J.R. Nyquist Blog
In 2005, THE EPOCH TIMES acquired a secret speech given by Defense Minister Chi Haotian to high-level Chinese Communist Party Cadres sometime before his retirement in 2003. Details given in Chi’s speech coincide with previously unpublished defector testimony on Sino-Russian military plans.
https://jrnyquist.blog/2019/09/11/the-secret-speech-of-general-chi-haotian/
“Only countries like the United States, Canada and Australia have the vast land to serve our (China’s) need for mass colonization.”
“We are not as foolish as to want to perish together with America by using nuclear weapons,... Only by using non-destructive weapons that can kill many people will we be able to reserve America for ourselves. There has been rapid development of modern biological technology, and new bio-weapons have been invented one after another. Of course, we have not been idle, in the past years we have seized the opportunity to master weapons of this kind. We are capable of achieving our purpose of “cleaning up” America all of a sudden.”
“It is indeed brutal to kill one or two hundred million Americans. But that is the only path that will secure a Chinese century in which the CCP leads the world.”
BREAKING: Biden Must Have Sanctioned the China Flight Over the US - Per Former RAF and Commercial Pilot
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