The US Navy has released the first images of their efforts to recover the Chinese surveillance balloon that was shot down on Saturday. The balloon was shot down about six miles off the coast of South Carolina, within American territorial waters, by an F-22 Raptor hailing from the 1st Fighter Wing at Langley Air Force Base, […]
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11th Airborne Division troops watch an atomic explosion at close range on November 1, 1951. (Getty Images photo).
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A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor approaches a Chinese spy balloon in the skies above South Carolina on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023. (Chad Fish/Associated Press).
Editor’s note: this article by Alex Hollings first appeared on Sandboxx.
On Saturday, an American F-22 Raptor shot down a Chinese surveillance balloon off the coast of South Carolina using an AIM-9X Sidewinder missile. In the days leading up to the intercept, the balloon had traversed the U.S. mainland and portions of Canada, leaving a flood of conspiracy theories in its wake.
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From 1956 onward, the reconnaissance balloons that drifted at high altitudes from the Western nations into the territories of the Warsaw Pact states had become a serious nuisance for the Soviet military authorities. Balloons of this kind might be carrying propaganda leaflets, but they could also be carrying reconnaissance equipment or even a bomb. A full 67 years before a U.S.
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The U.S. Navy has released the first pictures showing major components of a Chinese government surveillance balloon being recovered from the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Carolina. A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor stealth fighter shot down the balloon on Saturday after a more than week-long voyage through U.S. and Canadian national airspace. The War Zone‘s readers can bring themselves up to speed about what is known about the balloon and its flight in our prior reporting here.
The photographs in question, which were posted on the U.S.