Red Zeppelin recovered: Pentagon releases
pictures of Navy pulling wreckage of Chinese
spy balloon from Atlantic Ocean as Beijing
warns Biden it will resolutely safeguard
its legitimate rights' after F-22 shot
down 'unmanned airship'
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Alex Hammer
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
2/7/2023 2:30:18 PM
The Pentagon has released sensational photographs showing the Navy's retrieval of a suspected Chinese spy balloon shot down over the Atlantic Ocean.
The mission off the coast of South Carolina has taken days, and comes as relations between Beijing and Washington rapidly deteriorate after the high-altitude aircraft was shot down on Saturday.
Defense officials confirmed earlier this week that an amphibious warship, as well as several divers and underwater robots, had been deployed to survey a specific 'square mile' of ocean where the remains of the balloon were thought to be located.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
happywarrior 2/7/2023 2:43:52 PM (No. 1397517)
Sensational indeed! I don't see a single female or anyone that looks trans on that boat. Someone's gonna get demoted! :D
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 2/7/2023 2:46:45 PM (No. 1397522)
All I see is a balloon skin. I don't see the superstructure below. You know, the important part.
Let us know when that's found.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Kate318 2/7/2023 2:51:25 PM (No. 1397531)
Kind of like Roswell?
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Indeed, #1 - at least the Mail removed the "sensational" modifier from the headline. As for the recovery, the balloon is easy - it floats. What we want is lying on the sea floor, scattered over a square mile or more. Not that we can't pull it off. The Navy has located and recovered stuff from miles down and the bottom on this part of the continental shelf is shallow, flat, and sandy. Scanning sonar should be able to find all the pieces with little difficulty, so at least something will have gone right with the whole mess.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Namma 2/7/2023 3:09:10 PM (No. 1397551)
Looks like China is really angry with ole Joe. Ha. Anyone really believe that? China trying to make Biden look tough. If Biden was tough that balloon never would have made it more then ten feet into Alaska! Which surprises me that Biden allowed the balloon to cross into USA territory. Cause “no one F’s with a Biden!” Well. Except China. Oh. And Kimmy in N K. And then there’s Afghanistan. Oh. Brazil. And Iran. Oh. Don’t forget the Saudi’s. Russia Russia RUSSIA!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Catherine 2/7/2023 3:09:58 PM (No. 1397553)
Rights? What rights does China have over our air space?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 2/7/2023 3:10:00 PM (No. 1397554)
Most of what China does is fundamentally illegitimate. Stealing intellectual property on an industrial scale, spying on civil and military everywhere, building faux 'islands' hundreds of miles out at sea, and claiming tens of thousands of square miles of open ocean as their "coastal waters".
China is fundamentally evil, corrupt, fraudulent, lying and criminal.....and that's the GOVERNMENT.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 2/7/2023 3:15:57 PM (No. 1397558)
Massa Xi is very, very angry with Puppet Joe. The cost of that balloon will be taken out of Hunter's next salary check!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
SweetPea3 2/7/2023 3:50:34 PM (No. 1397586)
Looks like a bunch of our old surplus parachutes to me. The presstitutes snap some photos and say, "Oh look! The spy balloon!"
Not buyin it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
SALady 2/7/2023 4:57:16 PM (No. 1397624)
If Donald Trump were rightly president right now, he would have had the Navy and the Air Force coordinate shooting down this balloon over the Pacific Ocean as soon as it reached US air space. The Navy would have recovered the whole thing before it even touched the water.
But Lyin' Joe bidet was just following orders from his Chinese paymasters. Let it float over the American mainland for a week or so, transmitting all of its data back to China, then shoot it down over the Atlantic where they can recover the balloon, but not all the important technology that was probably designed to self-destruct as soon as it hit the water. Lyin' Joe probably earned himself a bonus for being such a good lackey for the Chinese government!!!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 2/7/2023 5:17:59 PM (No. 1397631)
Believe any of this?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
danu 2/7/2023 5:58:14 PM (No. 1397663)
they could get it all, if they wish:
look at all those cute gizmos and baby subs they send after treasure and the
Titanic. why not the Nosey the Xi-monster?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
jdano 2/7/2023 6:29:20 PM (No. 1397688)
They'll never tell us what they actually find.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Cousair 2/7/2023 6:43:08 PM (No. 1397697)
The F-22 was a great success against a 4000 square foot balloon while moving at 50mph.
I wonder how it would be against the latest CCP fighter jet. I only hope the Joint Chiefs do not identify the heroic pilot.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Catherine 2/7/2023 9:45:49 PM (No. 1397829)
What a lovely picture. Looks like a painting. Well staged.
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Legitimate rights? China invaded our airspace for days thanks to the sloths of the Pentagon, and now they whine about their rights? They aren't the victim here. The population of this nation called America is.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Johann 2/7/2023 10:27:00 PM (No. 1397839)
What a dumb military operation using an expensive missile to down a large balloon. Shows the whole world that the US will be ruthless in dealing with balloons. A short burst with a cannon carried in the fighter plane would have had the same effect, less dramatic perhaps, but retrievers will be waiting for the balloon to touch water. No wonder the US left behind so much arms and equipment in Afghanistan. And the idiot Milley still has a job. Unbelievable.
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