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2023-02-12 -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

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#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|| 2023-02-12 07:05|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2023-02-12 07:48|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2023-02-12 08:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Question worth asking
Are we on a Fast Pace to a Cocked Pistol?

Posted by NN2N1 2023-02-12 12:05|| 2023-02-12 12:05|| Front Page Top

#5 China testing for EMP Weapons?

Posted by Omiting Theting7288 2023-02-12 15:35|| 2023-02-12 15:35|| Front Page Top

#6 or is Canada just letting the ChiComs Come on in via the Great White North...

Posted by 746 2023-02-12 16:01|| 2023-02-12 16:01|| Front Page Top

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