Second balloon over Latin America is ours - China

[Eugene]

BBC News - Second balloon over Latin America is ours - China
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-64537098

Another civilian balloon blown off course. /sarc

[Beachnutt]

1. Why has it not been shot down already ?

Why did Canada not shoot down the one here ?

[Emile]

3. I thought the same about Canada too.

[maxsolomon]

7. Maybe they don't have the planes?

Took the worlds most advanced fighter jets to their altitude limit.

Plus, what is there to hide that a satellite can't see?

[drray23]

8. we did not fly a jet to 60000 ft.

we flew it at lower altitude and launched an air to air missile.

[maxsolomon]

9. Yes, that's what I mean. Still went to 50K feet.

Does any S. American nation have that capacity? I don't know.

[NutmegYankee]

10. By specs the F22 has a maximum ceiling above the balloon height.

So, we probably could have gotten there, but it made more sense to keep some distance.

[EX500rider]

11. They do have F-18 (CF-18 Hornet) Max alt 50,000 nt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_CF-18_Hornet

[Stuart G]

2. When You Think You Have Seen it All, There is always....MORE.

[haele]

4. "Civilian" balloons -and other aeronautical devices -often set aside payload tor

...official government or military equipment. And the Chinese very rarely -if ever- allow civilian experimentation or innovation that isn't approved and managed with the government as a full "partner".
In China, any entrepreneurs from Bill Gates to the Ben and Jerry's guys would have to be Party members to get their products past a street vendor level of Market.

Haele

[Irish_Dem]

5. Yes of course Xi has approved all of this.

The stories coming out are simply not believable.

[Walleye]

6. Which is why we should be digging into the trumps business in China

The whole reason they’re trying to connect to Biden to China is to cover up for trumps corruption. Just about any outrageous lie they can think of works with some people