* On Saturday, the US military shot down the Chinese spy balloon
* It's the first time a foreign aircraft has been shot down over America since WWII
* In July 1942, a Japanese jet was shot down over the Akutan Islands in Alaska
The downing of the Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday marked the first time that the US military has shot down a foreign aircraft over American soil since World War II.
A military fighter aircraft shot down the floating drone as it flew six nautical miles out over the Atlantic ocean on Saturday, drawing to a close a dramatic saga that shone a spotlight on worsening Sino-U.S. relations.
'We successfully took it down, and I want to compliment our aviators who did it,' President Joe Biden said. Biden said he had issued an order on Wednesday to take down the balloon, but the Pentagon had recommended waiting until it could be done over open water.
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WNU Editor: Shooting down a balloon may not seem much. But history was made today.
9 comments:
I wonder if the F22 gets a small black balloon under it's canopy :D
A $ trillion-a-year military budget popped the balloon.
I've never been more proud to be a Murican.
Let's bomb Iran.
The USAF have never been concerned with collateral damage on the ground at Berlin, Regensburg, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Iraq or Afghanistan. They blew this balloon out of the sky into the the Atlantic ocean because of what it was carrying. The USA is so vast they could have shot it down over the mountains, the deserts or the prairies or the Pacific before it reached the west coast. Amatuerish. Keep ducking
US sends battle groups to South China sea and China sends a balloon to the US and Americans all freaked out. Epic trolling.
Pathetic.
This is what comes to mind.
Even Germany would have shot down a foreign balloon over its territory, and its far denser populated than the US.
Pathetic! Biden China should go to prison, so should his son and all these corrupt people who sell America out
And prison is being merciful here.. firing squadron or hanging would be more what's called for at this point.
Is it us or our Media? I wasn’t freaked out. 🥱
US waited until China could upload all of the intelligence data the balloon captured about nuclear minutemen missiles in Montana. It appears the US military as well as the US President are working to help China. The future of the USA is not bright.
oh yes its gathering intelligence just google map it.
United 93?
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