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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Fighter jets fail to locate new 'airborne object' detected over Montana after military shut down airspace over 'radar anomaly' - hours after US F-22 shoots down 'small cylindrical object' over Canada
2023-02-12
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
And nobody saw them coming.
Time for some layoffs.
  • The FAA closed the airspace around Havre, Montana, for around an hour on Saturday night due to 'an object that could interfere with commercial air traffic'

  • An hour later, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said fighter jets had been scrambled for 'a radar anomaly', but nothing was found

  • At 3:41pm Eastern Time on Saturday, a U.S. F-22 shot down a 'small cylindrical object' flying over the Yukon, in a joint U.S.-Canadian operation
Posted by:Skidmark

#6  or is Canada just letting the ChiComs Come on in via the Great White North...
Posted by: 746   2023-02-12 16:01  

#5  China testing for EMP Weapons?
Posted by: Omiting Theting7288   2023-02-12 15:35  

#4  Question worth asking
Are we on a Fast Pace to a Cocked Pistol?
Posted by: NN2N1   2023-02-12 12:05  

#3  Early warning radar system couldn't find the right pronouns for the object so ignored the warning so as not to offend.
Posted by: Warthog   2023-02-12 08:39  

#2  When the 'Peace Dividend' was cashed in the the 90s, they did away with the interceptors on the coasts. That decision played out on 9/11 when nothing was really at hand to act. The one interceptor they sent up had no ammunition on it.

Same with budget priorities since. Local Air National Guard fighter units have been disappearing across the country. It's a little late to rebuild a fire department after you closed it down and stuff starts burning.

Air Defense missile sites have long been gone. Cause you know the Air Force will stop them long before they can get into the motherland.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-02-12 07:48  

#1  What are spy balloons, how do they work and why wouldn't China use a satellite? Everything you need to know about the 18th-century tech that has ratcheted up US-Beijing tensions
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-02-12 07:05  

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