China balloon & Airship Development
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Seems they’re taking a “more aggressive” approach to sightings of truly unidentified UAP. They said they didn’t know what it was. U.S. officials said it was not confirmed if the object was a balloon, but it was traveling at an altitude that made it a potential threat to civilian aircraft." "It is not clear if the object was from an adversarial power, or a commercial or research operation that had gone astray, the official said."
escobar
Brigadier
The second chinese balloon spotted over Latin America recently went down in the ocean to the east of the continent
This is sad.
What makes you think a helium balloon the size of a small car can't reach 40000 feet?
Good to know. I asked because I have never seen one in real and the ones I have seen on TV are huge.
What about loitering munition armed balloons? They can get quite some potential energy for Shahed-136 delivery. All you'd need is geolocation and a remote target selection/launch system. If it gets shot down, who cares, its what, 20k for a Shahed and 1k for a balloon? Maybe 9k for the ruggedized electronics and launch mechanism? If the launch mechanism is too expensive, just put 2 Shaheds on 1 balloon.
20k balloons with 40k Shahed equivalent on them would be devastating as an attritional weapon.
20k balloons with 40k Shahed equivalent on them would be devastating as an attritional weapon.