Is expending $4,00,000 missiles on $400 or $4,000 Chinese pop-ups the best use of America’s resources? Its vigilance has failed to check a far more insidious Chinese incursion
For once, the windbags of Washington were at a loss for words. For almost a week after the first Chinese spy balloon was spotted over the vast nuclear acreage of Montana, where some of America’s most lethal InterContinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) are silo-ed, there was no coherent explanation as to why Beijing would use a balloon for surveillance or reconnaissance, when scores of its satellites could do the job more effectively.
Sledgehammer response
When the exposition did come in dribs and drabs, it credited the Chinese with an extraordinarily sophisticated high altitude balloon programme that may be linked to perhaps even the fine-tuning of its hypersonic missile advance that has already spooked the United States.
Sledgehammer response
When the exposition did come in dribs and drabs, it credited the Chinese with an extraordinarily sophisticated high altitude balloon programme that may be linked to perhaps even the fine-tuning of its hypersonic missile advance that has already spooked the United States.