So, USA has ‘the mightiest army in the World’, over $800 billion military budget, and what do we get? Days of whining because of Chinese balloon! Balloon, for a God’s sake!
And today, they’ve finally got the balloon under 18km, and in the range for pinning it by ‘the mightiest army in the World’:
The operation to neutralize the Chinese balloon included:
• 5th generation F-22 Raptor fighters (one of them hit the balloon with an AIM-9X missile),
• F-15 fighter-bombers,
• Coast Guard helicopter MH-60,
• US Navy auxiliary ship USS Carter Hall,
• E-2A Hawkeye early warning and control aircraft,
• Nuclear aircraft carrier
• Air command post (doomsday aircraft) E-4B Nightwatch,
• KC-135 Stratotanker refueling plane,
• Potentially other ships and aircraft.
For several hours, the airspace above parts of the two countries was closed, the operation of three airports was suspended.
Congratulations! Balloon story brought to you by the same bunch of liars who made this, exactly 20 years ago:
