In order to participate in the GunBroker Member forums, you must be logged in with your GunBroker.com account. Click the sign-in button at the top right of the forums page to get connected.
I can think a quite a few reasons to not shoot it down.
Maybe we are learning from it, studying the encrypted signal it is sending.
Maybe we are hacking the signal.
Maybe China did it to prompt some kind of response out of us or expose some kind of vulnerability and we don't want to play that game
Maybe we already know what it is doing and knew in advance and is part of a bigger operation we have going and can't kill it without exposing something.
And maybe.........Biden is a weak feckless "leader" that NO one on the world scale respects!
Most likely, China is pushing to see how far they can go against a WEAK mentally ill POTUS!
I say, Shoot it down! Dont LIE and say there would be debris from the ballon AND our missile! Its a BALLOON use a 30 cal bullet! SMH. There was ample opportunity to take it down over open land!!
Truth is.......our govt is AFRAID of China, and THAT is a scary thought to me!
I think at 17,000 feet it is safe from a 30 cal bullet. Unless someone flies an airplane up a lot closer. I would be more afraid of all the idiots shooting at it now and the bullets returning (what goes up, must go down) to earth that any supposed debris from shooting it down (what moron at the White House thought that lie up).
In the time after New Years I would respond to calls of bullets being found inside people's houses. In trailer parks, bullets found on top of a bed, and a corresponding hole in the ceiling.
Have you looked at any map of Montana lately? Not many people there.
?The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.?
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
I know that China has admitted the balloon is one of theirs but I wonder how it was first identified as to being from China? The 2nd balloon is flying somewhere over Latin America.
The Dang thing was floating around above us yesterday.... We are about 50 miles from Whiteman AF base and it would have passed over it too. Tried to get a pic of it, but not enough lens to pull it off.....
China is trying to send us some of them Back Ordered car parts to the USA.
Our first parts order is off the coast of Kalif on a ship and Brandons appointed transportation secretary Pete BUTT igieg cannot bring the ships into port due to his husbands family issues.
Now that the BALOON shipment is SHOT DOWN auto parts will have to be ordered again.
Adds new meaning to the term, IT"s on a SLOW BOAT FROM CHINA.
Comments
Shoot it down, its only seven miles up, that was ARs are for?
It's a death star!
Are you sure that is not Mexican? Look at the subwoofer on that thing! Don
I'm sure joe will give Xi a stern talking to in the morning.
They may be hoping we do shoot it down..it could be full of Bioweapons.. risky proposition...
Looks like there's a second one making it's way across Latin America.
If it's trying to gather intelligence it will not fly around over the White House, Washington DC or Brandon's House. That area is safe.
Beam me up Scotty, there is no intelligent life down here around the White House.
I can think a quite a few reasons to not shoot it down.
Maybe we are learning from it, studying the encrypted signal it is sending.
Maybe we are hacking the signal.
Maybe China did it to prompt some kind of response out of us or expose some kind of vulnerability and we don't want to play that game
Maybe we already know what it is doing and knew in advance and is part of a bigger operation we have going and can't kill it without exposing something.
maybe its ours????????
true
Maybe is it s distraction
China has acknowledged that it is theirs. They say it is a weather balloon. That may in fact be true.
And maybe.........Biden is a weak feckless "leader" that NO one on the world scale respects!
Most likely, China is pushing to see how far they can go against a WEAK mentally ill POTUS!
I say, Shoot it down! Dont LIE and say there would be debris from the ballon AND our missile! Its a BALLOON use a 30 cal bullet! SMH. There was ample opportunity to take it down over open land!!
Truth is.......our govt is AFRAID of China, and THAT is a scary thought to me!
I think at 17,000 feet it is safe from a 30 cal bullet. Unless someone flies an airplane up a lot closer. I would be more afraid of all the idiots shooting at it now and the bullets returning (what goes up, must go down) to earth that any supposed debris from shooting it down (what moron at the White House thought that lie up).
In the time after New Years I would respond to calls of bullets being found inside people's houses. In trailer parks, bullets found on top of a bed, and a corresponding hole in the ceiling.
Have you looked at any map of Montana lately? Not many people there.
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
I know that China has admitted the balloon is one of theirs but I wonder how it was first identified as to being from China? The 2nd balloon is flying somewhere over Latin America.
Those shifty buzzards are up to no good IMO!
Not 17,000 feet. It's at 70,000 feet. SEVENTY thousand. That's twice as high as most commercial airliners fly.
We could get it with an air-air missile from a fighter, but that's all. And it isn't over Montana now, either.
Link to how difficult it might be, for those who think just putting a bullet into it would work...
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fdavidhambling%2F2023%2F02%2F03%2Fbusting-that-chinese-balloon-is-harder-than-you-think%2F%3Fsh%3D1fe75f467d6a
The Dang thing was floating around above us yesterday.... We are about 50 miles from Whiteman AF base and it would have passed over it too. Tried to get a pic of it, but not enough lens to pull it off.....
About to be over the Atlantic ocean if not already.
My 2 cents, let it be. The media and our so called leaders are using it for publicity stunt anyway.
The Chinese and all our enemies have far better way to spy on us than using a balloon.
Buffoon by far.
It said on the balloon “MADE IN CHINA”
Just read we shot it down just off the Carolina coast.
Just for clarification, didnt know I needed to spell it out, a .30 bullet from a JET.
It was at 60,000 ft at that time. Our fighter jets, some of them, can reach that altitude easily and take it down with their guns.
Just sayin'
Not a .30-cal. It was an air-air missile. Guns would have had no effect. Read the article at the link I posted above.
Besides, none of our jets use .30-cal anything.
Ohhh jeeez my eyes!🥹😎👽
Someone got some great close up photos of it just before they Sidewindered it.
China is trying to send us some of them Back Ordered car parts to the USA.
Our first parts order is off the coast of Kalif on a ship and Brandons appointed transportation secretary Pete BUTT igieg cannot bring the ships into port due to his husbands family issues.
Now that the BALOON shipment is SHOT DOWN auto parts will have to be ordered again.
Adds new meaning to the term, IT"s on a SLOW BOAT FROM CHINA.
,