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US Could Use Laser to Force Down Chinese
Spy Balloon in ‘Semi-Controlled Descent’:
Aerospace Specialist

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Posted By: earlybird, 2/4/2023 3:13:15 PM

The United States could bring down the Chinese surveillance balloon currently flying eastward across the country by shooting it with a laser, which would cause it to gradually descend without inflicting serious damage to civilians on the ground, according to an aerospace specialist. The Defense Department previously ruled out shooting down the balloon, which was first spotted earlier this week in Montana, saying that its size could cause a debris field large enough to harm Americans. But Art Thompson, CEO of California-based company Sage Cheshire Aerospace which provides stratospheric balloon launching and research services, believes that a “semi-controlled descent” could be a solution.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Zeek Wolfe 2/4/2023 3:21:58 PM (No. 1394897)
Forcing down the spy balloon would annoy the Chinese. The Pentagon and Biden's White House cannot allow that to happen.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: RobertJ984 2/4/2023 3:23:46 PM (No. 1394900)
The debris field could harm Americans. Over Montana!!! There are hundreds of square miles with NOTHING
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Reply 3 - Posted by: marbles 2/4/2023 3:23:49 PM (No. 1394901)
It's already been taken down.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: rochow 2/4/2023 3:30:12 PM (No. 1394909)
This aerospace specialist knows this, others in the military know this. Bottle hugging Milley does not know it, nor CRT flat footed moron Austin does not know it, nor Blinken-blanken the dumber than dumb secretary of whatever does not know this. The US has been humiliated once again by draft dodger bidet who is used to humiliations! Nothing new to see for this clown administration!
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Reply 5 - Posted by: mobyclik 2/4/2023 3:37:38 PM (No. 1394916)
If a fleet of IBMS's was heading here from China, these buffoons would allow one to hit us just to make sure they're real nukes before retaliating. And if they were real, idiot Biden would charge them with a hate crime.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: MindMadeUp 2/4/2023 3:38:45 PM (No. 1394918)
Using a laser to bring it down safely so it can be inspected makes a lot of sense. So Biden's gang won't do it that way.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 2/4/2023 3:50:26 PM (No. 1394940)
My goodness, all of these news stories about a balloon. Why this distraction? Why are we are being made to look the other way. Biden you cheater, any thoughts, pal?
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Reply 8 - Posted by: earlybird 2/4/2023 3:54:10 PM (No. 1394945)
It’s down, Was down before I posted this. But I still think this would have been a cool idea for all the reasons detailed in the article. Did anyone read it? :-) Fox now reporting that one shot was fired into the balloon. That would have caused it to leak air and come down about that way Thompson described.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Twinkle93 2/4/2023 3:57:20 PM (No. 1394948)
Please go back to basic science. There could not be much of a debris field at all. The "balloon" is floating in the air at 60,000 feet. Air density is 0.000226 #/ cu. ft. If, as reported, it is the size (volume) of three semi's, its whole weight would be ten pounds or less.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Proud Texan 2/4/2023 4:15:24 PM (No. 1394962)
We have to use a more expensive toy to shoot it down. Let's see, can anyone think of anything more expensive than a bullet? I know! Let's use a jet plane to fire a missile costing a couple of hundred thousand dollars, maybe more. That sounds good.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: bighambone 2/4/2023 4:23:25 PM (No. 1394972)
I don’t know how the Biden crew at the Pentagon and the White House could legitimately come out claiming that it would have caused a lot of collateral damage to people on the ground in the very sparsely populated Aleutian Islands, Alaska, or Montana, as if they shot down the Communist Chinese balloon as the debris field would be about 400 square miles in diameter. Of course that was before that balloon flew over the continental USA, and who knows how much intelligence data equipment on the balloon sent back to China. But now after the Communist Chinese balloon became a prime subject of today’s and yesterday’s international news coverage after flying over the continental USA. So this afternoon Biden came out stating that at his direction the U.S. Military finally shot that balloon down over the Atlantic Ocean within 12 miles of the South Carolina coastline where there is a largely populated area, both on land and in the water, apparently without any debris from the balloon landing anywhere in North or South Carolina.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: zoidberg 2/4/2023 4:24:44 PM (No. 1394975)
I was thinking of a surface-to-air pin.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Rinktum 2/4/2023 4:48:58 PM (No. 1394983)
Hmmmmm, makes you wonder if non-action was the plan all along. It is very difficult to watch a CIC choose to ignore a threat from China when it is becoming very clear that he and his son have strong financial ties and who knows what else to this regime. Joe Biden deserves to be impeached. He has made decisions that seriously harmed this country and yet he is never held accountable. It’s time to uncover all this and expose him for what he is, an immoral, greedy and untrustworthy criminal.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Roscoelewis 2/4/2023 4:54:29 PM (No. 1394993)
This makes me wonder. If Russia, Iran, NK started shooting missiles at us, how long would it take to those government fools to react.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Lonestar Jack 2/4/2023 4:58:30 PM (No. 1394995)
Tic Tok gathers digital data on all people using it especially the youngsters . We are shutting down the platform finally. The "Weather balloon" collects digital images of the USA. Our bought and paid for president Biden is sitting on his hands waiting for the for to OK to shoot it down. His published rational As improbable as it is because it "might" cause a few American deaths. He must think his Pentagon people can not find open space in Alaska or Montana. Biden has done nothing to prevent the estimated 300+ daily deaths due to Fentanyl to say nothing of the estimate of 1687/day (CDC reports 615,917 legal abortions in 2020 deaths divided by 365 days /year) infant deaths due to legal abortions verses a "might". The pentagon say the payload on the balloon is not a threat to to our security so then they must know what the payload consists of. It is truly a trial balloon to test the resolve of our government. Do you suppose they will ask Hunter and the "big man" to return all the money for services rendered?
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Roscoelewis 2/4/2023 5:01:23 PM (No. 1394996)
So a few prairie dogs out in eastern Montana are more important than our national security. I would want that balloon down on the ground so I could take a look and find out what it was doing.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: DVC 2/4/2023 5:21:48 PM (No. 1395011)
Joe wants it downed over the ocean where it won't be recovered....if or recovered, nobody but the government folks will see it....so they can make whatever they want out of it. We'll never get a straight story out of the Traitor Joe cabal.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: JackBurton 2/4/2023 5:30:08 PM (No. 1395022)
yeh... my thought was blind it with a laser or poke a small hole in the fabric. They did neither.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: DVC 2/4/2023 5:36:53 PM (No. 1395030)
Dropping it over the Aleutians or Montana had a negligable risk if the pilot of the aircraft is smart enough to look down and make sure he's not over Missoula or something. I have flown over and driven through that country. Miles and miles of .......nothing but maybe a hay barn or ranch house every 100 square miles.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: bad-hair 2/4/2023 5:52:38 PM (No. 1395046)
EMP's work 2 ways. Should have just zapped it earlier and it would just be an expensive balloon.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: Rumblehog 2/4/2023 7:32:24 PM (No. 1395118)
Exactly what I thought too. They could have written the entire Gettysburg Address on that balloon from the ground before popping it at the ending period with just a big enough hole to force it down in controlled fashion. Lasers are amazing. We used to have the massive B747 Airborne Laser in the 1990's, but the idiots in the Pentagon ended that research.
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