Comments by "" (@sirtra) on "How China Steals US Military Technology" video.

What about balloons? Has the US military got an anti-balloon system yet? 🤔
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@beautanner8409 the responsible course of action would have been detecting and dealing with it BEFORE it was above US soil. Shooting it down AFTER it left was even dumber, by that stage i was expecting the military to have devised a plan to capture it so it could be examined. But nope, they just shot it into a million pieces and have no idea what was onboard, what its capabilities were, how it was cobstructed etc. It was possibly one of the worst ways of dealing with such an event, not only from a technical stand point but in terms of optics too. So whilst my original comment was partially in jest, there was an aspect of it which was serious. If another balloon appeared over your state, lingering there for days, would you not think that is a serious issue and a direct result of how the first DETECTED balloon was handled? I'm not one to usually use this phrase but damn, keep licking that boot 🫡
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@beautanner8409 the US military has plenty of F-16's - i guess they were all "in the shop" being repaired or something when that Chinese balloon traversed the entire US continent for days eh?
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@beautanner8409 is was a matter of "luck" that civilians were able to detect and film an "unprecedented" balloon from their backyards using their cell phones? Seriously that's what you're going with?! It was sheer luck the world's most advanced military was outdone by Bob with an iPhone 😂 You're adorable. Are you also naive enough to believe they "jammed" the communication signals of this unprecedented object that floated undetected over US soil for days? 😂
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@beautanner8409 the US military was able to backtrace the balloon's journey and origin, thus they had the capability of detecting this foreign object long before Bob with an iPhone... but they didn't. What if the next one has a nuclear or explosive payload? Or 100 fortnite players in a bus with guns? There is a much simpler solution to that problem than deploying more Bob's with an iPhone to the Bering sea 😂
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@beautanner8409 lol nah bro you are the one who is all over the place trying to justify how a balloon went undetected for days in US airspace. After the balloon was spotted by civilians, the military managed to trace it's path backwards and determin where it came from/where it had been etc. They were able to do this as they have a wealth of data being constantly recorded, it was just a matter of trawling through it. It was an embarrassing and poorly handled event from start to finish. If you don't think so, cool man i ain't here to change your mind.. you want to keep throwing shade and ad hominem at me go right ahead, it speaks more about you than it does myself buddy. "Unprecedented" 🤣
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