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China: Taiwan Tensions

The government fired a missile above your house. What if it missed and fell to earth and hit your house?
 
BarcaDeac said:
The government fired a missile above your house. What if it missed and fell to earth and hit your house?
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There is no way to please these people. If Biden had shot it down earlier, Fox & company would have just complained that he should have shot it down over the Pacific before it even reached the continental US, that we were needlessly provoking the Chinese, that we should have let it stay up longer to learn its "secrets" and determine Chinese intentions, etc. They're not complaining to make a point, the point is to complain no matter what Biden and his administration decided to do.
 
PhDeac said:
If even one person was injured or one piece of property damaged by this, it would be considered a massive government screwup.
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Especially since it’s probably not a serious spying or any other kind of real risk.
 
Highland Deac said:
There is no way to please these people. If Biden had shot it down earlier, Fox & company would have just complained that he should have shot it down over the Pacific before it even reached the continental US, that we were needlessly provoking the Chinese, that we should have let it stay up longer to learn its "secrets" and determine Chinese intentions, etc. They're not complaining to make a point, the point is to complain no matter what Biden and his administration decided to do.
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Correct. These aren’t serious people who want what’s best for the country. They’re playing politics 24/7.
 
PhDeac said:
If even one person was injured or one piece of property damaged by this, it would be considered a massive government screwup.
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It's (allegedly) a balloon, not a Star Destroyer. Towing or popping it out of the sky over Alaska or Montana isn't going to cause any more damage on the ground than if some poor bastard's parachute fails to deploy.
 
2&2 Slider To Leyritz said:
It's (allegedly) a balloon, not a Star Destroyer. Towing or popping it out of the sky over Alaska or Montana isn't going to cause any more damage on the ground than if some poor bastard's parachute fails to deploy.
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a balloon with a bunch of shit hanging below it
 
Does the military even have the capacity to just “tow” a large heavy object flying several miles in the air?
 
2&2 is the guy that complains that we have a bloated wasteful defense budget while also wanting a few billion a year DARPA project to be designated towards research and development for in flight ballon capture.
 
you'd need a big hanger at Skunk Works to hide the Star Destroyer prototypes
 
why tow it when you can just blow it up in front of American citizens? i mean, c'mon. how often do we get to see missiles fired from a fighter jet from our own soil?

america fuck yea
 
PhDeac said:
Does the military even have the capacity to just “tow” a large heavy object flying several miles in the air?
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No. Especially at 60,000 ft elevation, where this balloon was floating. Only plane that can safely go that high is the U2, a light, difficult to maneuver, spy plane. 2&2 is asking, demanding, that the military invent new technology and deploy all within 3-5 days. You can make wild claims that next time we should be ready with a high elevation retriever plane. But imagine if Biden sent a pilot up there in a plane exceeding safe elevations to trap and tow a giant balloon, which had never been done before and the plane was not designed for and the operation ends in tragedy.
 
how many birds can fly that high? could an eagle or hawk be trained to grip the balloon strings in its talons?
 
maybe we have some real life Mavericks training on top secret space planes and would be willing to fly that high, open the window, grab the balloon and then fly on at mach 10
 
I think some drones can operate at that height as a max ceiling, but once again would then somehow also need a capture device and most likelihood is a crashed ballon and crashed drone.
 
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