* F-22 Raptor out of Langley took the balloon down with a single missile at 2.38pm
* An operation was underway to recover the wreckage and retrieve intelligence
* Biden told reporters, 'I ordered the Pentagon to shoot it down on Wednesday as soon as possible ... and I want to compliment our aviators who did it'
Joe Biden praised the Top Gun fighter jet pilot who shot down the Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina today after he vowed to 'take care of it.'
An F-22 Raptor out of Langley Air Force base took the balloon down with a single AIM-9X sidewinder missile at 2.38pm, separating its surveillance payload and sending it plummeting towards the ocean off Myrtle Beach.
Footage showed the jet screaming towards the spy aircraft before firing the missile as stunned locals watched from the coast.
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WNU Editor: Critics of President Biden are seeing this entire incident as a sign on how "weak" the U.S. has become .... Lawmakers react after Chinese spy balloon shot down: 'Disastrous projection of weakness' (FOX News).
Update: There is now a race for the wreckage .... Race for the wreckage: Fears China may reach spy balloon wreckage ahead of the US Navy salvage vessel that may not be on the scene for DAYS - as it lands in 47ft of water six miles off the coast of South Carolina (Daily Mail).
U.S. F-22 Raptor Shoots Down Suspected Chinese Surveillance Balloon Off The Coast Of South Carolina
Eyes on the sky as Chinese balloon shot down over Atlantic -- AP
U.S. fighter jet shoots down suspected Chinese spy balloon with missile, article with video -- Reuters
US shoots down suspected Chinese spy balloon over Atlantic Ocean -- France 24
U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese surveillance balloon -- CNBC
Where the Chinese surveillance balloon was spotted before being shot down -- ABC News
Suspected Chinese spy balloon shot down off South Carolina coast -- CBS News
US military shoots down Chinese spy balloon over Atlantic Ocean -- FOX News
US fighter jets shoot down Chinese spy balloon off East Coast -- CNN
China balloon: US shoots down airship over Atlantic -- BBC
US shoots down suspected Chinese spy balloon over east coast -- The Guardian
US shoots down Chinese 'spy balloon' off S. Carolina coast -- DW
US Stealth Jet Shoots Down Chinese Spy Balloon Off Carolinas -- Zero Hedge
The Chinese Balloon Was Shot Down By the U.S. Military. Here's What We Know -- Time
US downs Chinese balloon, a flashpoint in US-China tensions -- AP
9 comments:
It's too late. The balloon gave everybody gay and now America can't fight wars
because of the Franklin servers and caravan.
I own the biggest skidoo dealership in seven counties.
DID THE FINALIZE PLANS TO SHOOT THE BALLOON DWN AND ONLY THEN OR AFTER T WAS SHOT DOWN THEY gave orders to the salvage SHIP?
They could use a civilian salvage ship. There is liability there that a private insurer might not accept. The govt could cover that
6 miles off the US coast and the Chinese might get their first. Maybe the Chinese had an inking it might be shot down and preposition a salvage craft
Maybe they just have a buttload of more ships and no one cared until Biden got elected. A Republican could scream until he or she is blue in the face about unfavorable correlation of forces and nothing would be done until a Democrat is elected.
Just more keystone cops from Austin's Defense Department,
SHOULD HAVE USED THE TWENTY MM 🔫
Nobody wants to find it. We shot down a weather balloon. Yippee.
A Man Of the New Century, I Observe!
A couple thousand dollar weather-balloon defeated by a 1/x million dollar missile.
I guess overkill was the point, and it was a nice shot.
He splashed it in 47 feet of water also. Veddy Nice.
Embarrassing.
Pathetic.
Criminal.
These people in charge should be marched in front of a wall.
oh,, no,,, where going to get invaded by weather balloons. Bet them rooskies got plenty of China tech to annex the *cough* the war they will win annexing another country. poor China and Russia thinking that old maps are considered their country.
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