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So the F-22 is now 3-0 against balloons? And people had the audacity to call this plane a "failure"!
And anyway, isn't the F-22 due to be retired before the end of the decade, so wouldn't debating its merits be beating a dead horse?
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I don't see how China would willfully continue send these balloons without expecting a symmetrical escalation. Sure, they managed to send a few relatively undetected until the past recent weeks, but continued attempts would surely produce a physical response from NATO states, whether that's sending balloons of their own or overflying Chinese territory with other aircraft, or increased signals intelligence operations.
>symmetrical escalation So like what, a similar but bigger balloon?
How much if this is just awareness bias, where the media reports commonplace events that were previously ignored?
"an official revealed during a briefing on Saturday that the U.S. was aware of three other instances during the prior administration and one instance earlier in the Biden administration that such an apparatus “transited” the country."
[1] https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3844511-chinese-balloons-...
Jets seem to be eclipsing balloons as the dominant air combatant
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I was joking in the other thread, that soon people will be buying weather baloons and setting them off "for the lulz" (youtube videos, tiktok, or whatever) :)
I would watch a TikTok of "F22 shoots down my balloon."
Ironic if people are being spied upon by TikTok whilst watching a spy balloon video.