look how well micfrosoft has done simply by buying up companies with good products and not trying to make their own. they are held up as a shining example of how to succeed in business without really trying. Seems like china is actually at least making their own copies not just buying the originals out.
Its not in controlled airspace, Class A tops out at 60kft. And why should we bother wasting any resources shooting it down? China certainly didn’t plan for it to be here, and they also have plenty of spy satellites if they need pictures. Who cares about a stupid balloon? Its like the biggest manufactured crisis for the media.
. not so we can copy it or anythingAt the time the real propaganda victory(?) handed the Soviets over the U2 shootdown was diminishing the credibility of a U.S. President who's faulty intelligence system had no idea Powers was alive.... "the Eisenhower administration believed that little evidence of the plane's espionage mission had survived the crash, so they responded that the aircraft was merely a weather plane that had accidentally flown off course"
Awaiting an announcement that Dept Of Defense will seek a couple of $Billion$ to catch up to China in Balloon technology in order to close the "Balloon Gap".
Bob...please draw the shades to your bedroom.
theres a bunch still sitting around. im sure they only need a tune up and bit of fuel
Well, they tried, 4000 times and never even came close.
