Comments by "Hermit Oldguy" (@hermitoldguy6312) on "Biden DOD Accuses TRUMP Of Allowing Chinese Spy Balloons In the US! INSTANTLY DEBUNKED! China FUMES!" video.

  1. Good question.
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  2. An Army marches on its stomach. War is logistics and that is economics.
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  3. Considering it could carry anthrax, plague or a nuclear bomb, best to shoot it down before it reaches the mainland.
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  4. That's called a false dichotomy.
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  5. At 60,000+ ft, there's very little air, both for engines and lift. What few planes can fly that high, must fly fast (or have enormous wings).
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  6. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Truth is the first casualty of war. Truth is so important, it must be protected by a bodyguard of lies.
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  7. Yes, it look like self-destruct to me, too.
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  8. China is currently in a shooting border-dispute with India, threatening Taiwan, threatening the US Navy in the Yellow Sea, aiding Russia, and sabre-rattling against the UK.
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  9. ... ask India. Ask the US Navy.
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  10. ... and the Dems would've been mad about it.
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  11. They'd want constant updates (new pictures) to look for changes (any new activity).
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  12. .. and across the Pacific.
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  13. Another good question. In UK, Russia was monitoring UK nuclear sites from a UK military air base. (Prolly still are.)
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  14. That's why you do military planning in advance, and set policy - so you can respond quickly. US airspace has been defended since WWII, at least.
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  15. But they're also saying they couldn't help that it flew across the US - it was force majeure (act of God/nature).
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  16. Force majeure is French, pronounced 'force majur' but with a soft 'j', and implies the hand of God was at work, so the balloon was beyond China's control.
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  17. Good thinking, but China playing along?
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  18. It tells you which way the wind blows - atmospherically and politically - both are military information.
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  19. A weather balloon can provide military information - just track where it goes, and you know where a bomb-laden balloon would go.
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  20. Defeatist talk - demoralising propaganda.
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  21. German was running commercial (hydrogen) Zeppelin flights from 1910. Germany dropped bombs/incendiaries on London from Zeppelins in WWI Hindenburg disaster happened 1936. (Zeppelin flight from Europe to US.) Japan sent bombs to US East coast by balloon in WWII.
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  22. You can make tens of thousands of balloons for the price of a satellite. Imagine the cost of shooting them down.
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  23. It's a difficult thing to do - shoot down a balloon; they fly very high and very slow. IR missile won't see it - balloons are not hot. Radar missile won't see it - only sees solid/metal things. Lazer-guided missile? I don't know. Ordinary bullets - short range, and don't kill hydrogen balloons. Explosive bullets/tracer rounds - short range, do kill Hydrogen, not Helium. Difficult to get a plane to fly at 60,000 ft - no lift, has to fly fast. Hard to hit a slow moving target when you're flying 600 mph.
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  24. A laser-guided missile might go through a balloon without exploding. Then what does it do?
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  25. Another question is cost and speed of replacement. An air-to-air missile is very expensive. What if China sends 1,000 balloons?
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  26.  @mikekouvatasjr5417  If you captured them, they'd prolly put in a self-destruct or anti-tamper system. A laser might be a good weapon against a balloon and a laser-armed balloon would be a good vehicle to intercept an enemy balloon.
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