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2023-02-11 China-Japan-Koreas
US blacklists 6 Chinese entities over balloon program
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Posted by Besoeker 2023-02-11 05:53|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top
 File under: Commies 

#1  Beijing Nanjiang Aerospace Technology Co., China Electronics Technology Group Corporation 48th Research Institute, Dongguan Lingkong Remote Sensing Technology Co., Eagles Men Aviation Science and Technology Group Co., Guangzhou Tian-Hai-Xiang Aviation Technology Co., and Shanxi Eagles Men Aviation Science and Technology Group Co.

Blacklisted ?

No mention made of: US Parters (GD, Raytheon, BAE, Lockheed Martin, etc)? Previous cooperative agreements? USG contracts? US employees? US Subcontractors? US Technology or systems provided to them ?

More information please, or.... must we go behind the Green Door ?


Posted by Besoeker 2023-02-11 06:01||   2023-02-11 06:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Why would China use a spy balloon when it has satellites?
Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-11 06:04||   2023-02-11 06:04|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ Relatively inexpensive ability to hover and provide persistent surveillance. Ability to 'flood the zone' to provide targeting data or Battle Damage Assessment (BDA).

(Tethered Aerostat at Kabul, AFG used for perimeter defense, circa 2010 )
Posted by Besoeker 2023-02-11 06:12||   2023-02-11 06:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Hard to figure the upside for Biden and intel agencies to allow the balloon to pass. Harder to figure why it’s passage was hidden from Trump.
Posted by Ebbuger Whuque4103 2023-02-11 09:51||   2023-02-11 09:51|| Front Page Top

#5 /\ Likely figured the damn things would escape notice or be labeled 'aliens from outer space.' Shooting them down risks the payloads falling where a farmer could pick it up and call the media for a look.

'Hey Leonard, isn't that a TI sim card?'


Posted by Besoeker 2023-02-11 10:26||   2023-02-11 10:26|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ Better yet, sell it on eBay. That'd be fun.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-11 10:27||   2023-02-11 10:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Israel used aerostats to monitor the Sinai at least as early as 1982. They work. They were operational south of Fort Huachuca, AZ, on border patrol in the nineties. They worked.
Posted by Slavising Unineting5672 2023-02-11 17:10||   2023-02-11 17:10|| Front Page Top

#8 Don't forget Fat Albert in the Florida Keys.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-11 17:37||   2023-02-11 17:37|| Front Page Top

#9 #7 - saw the one over Ft. Huachuca when #1 son was stationed there
Posted by Frank G 2023-02-11 19:02||   2023-02-11 19:02|| Front Page Top

#10 Republicans react to third 'object' shot down over Canada: 'Unprecedented challenge'
Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-11 19:33||   2023-02-11 19:33|| Front Page Top

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