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The F-22 Raptor fighter that flew from Virginia to South Carolina on Saturday and downed an alleged Chinese spy balloon with a missile strike brought high ...

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The U.S. Air Force finally shot down the Chinese 'spy balloon' using its fifth-gen fighter jet, F-22 Raptor, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin confirmed.

[report](https://apnews.com/article/268893fddde785d029d5a51b136951eb) by the Associated Press, a research balloon measured the amount of ozone in Canada. However, unlike the 1998 incident, the US F-22 Raptors were scrambled from Nellis Air Force Base but did not attempt to shoot it down. This was the first kill for the F-22 Raptor. “With something like this, which is stationary in the air when the CF-18s are flying very, very fast, it is difficult to shoot it,” Wills said. Since the balloon went rogue, over 1,000 rounds were fired at it by two Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) CF-18 fighter planes after they spotted it over Newfoundland. It’s not the Hindenburg, you can’t just shoot it and then and then it goes up in flames,” referring to the airship accident that occurred on May 6, 1937. This incident has reminded the world of another “balloon incident” that rocked the global north more than two decades ago. However, they decided not to shoot it down earlier for fear of debris falling on the people on the ground. However, specialists believe that shooting the balloon was not feasible. While the U.S. Air Force finally shot down the Chinese ‘spy balloon’ using its fifth-gen fighter jet, F-22 Raptor, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. The U.S.

An F-22 fighter jet destroyed a Chinese balloon with a missile Saturday (Feb. 4) when the airship was over the Atlantic Ocean off the South Carolina coast.

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China has expressed its "strong dissatisfaction and protest" against the United States' decision to shoot down its high-altitude balloon, accusing it of ...

Pentagon officials earlier this week said the balloon posed no “military or physical” threat. “Both balloons also carry surveillance equipment not usually associated with standard meteorological activities or civilian research,” the official said. “China clearly asked the US to handle it properly in a calm, professional and restrained manner. “This was a PRC (People’s Republic of China) surveillance balloon. Zhuang Guotai was the head of China Meteorological Administration until Friday, but his departure from that post was not unexpected. It excuses a party from liability if an unforeseen event, such as a natural catastrophe, prevents it from performing its obligations under the contract.

After floating over the US for days, a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon has been shot down. But aftershocks from the saga continue to reverberate.

Intelligence gathering has been conducted using balloons since the 19th century, and their usefulness has significantly declined. During.

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The effort off the coast of South Carolina is expected to take days. Navy and Coast Guard ships have been sent to the scene.

Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, the top Republican on the Intelligence Committee, called it a “dereliction of duty.” She said the balloon had “violated U.S. America’s Western allies were quick to line up behind the Biden administration’s insistence that the balloon was a clumsy attempt at spying by China. He described it as “a decision that was focused on protecting human life,” but he cautioned that the incident should not have happened at all. Intelligence officials can offer briefings on China’s balloon surveillance program to “key officials” from the Trump administration, the person said. Officials in Washington and Beijing had seen the trip as part of a renewed effort to establish high-level dialogue during a period of heightened tensions. Officials from the State Department and the White House National Security Council spoke with Chinese officials about the downing of the balloon soon after it happened, a senior Biden administration official said. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Defense Secretary Lloyd J. A senior administration official said on Sunday that in the end, U.S. official said on Sunday that there were ways for intelligence officials to feed false information to the balloon, which would largely render the information it gathered worthless. The recovery effort, which is expected to take days, began not long after debris from the balloon hit the water on Saturday, a defense official said. WASHINGTON — Navy divers were searching for debris from the Chinese spy balloon that a U.S.

Pete Buttigieg says president 'considered safety of American people' after Marco Rubio criticizes eight-day wait.

“The message embedded to the world is: ‘We can fly a balloon over airspace of the United States of America and they won’t be able to do anything about it … We should not have let the People’s Republic of China make a mockery of our airspace … The Pentagon has acknowledged reports of a second balloon over Latin America. Blinken said he told a senior Chinese diplomat sending the balloon was “an irresponsible act … President Biden missed the opportunity to defend our sovereignty, send a message of strength and bolster deterrence.” “This puts a big dent in moving that forward in a constructive way, which we really need to do.” The balloon was spotted on Wednesday over Montana, home to Malmstrom Air Force Base, which has fields of nuclear missile silos. and the operation was put in place without pain, damage or injury to any Americans, lives or property”. The Chinese knew this was going to be spotted. It crossed Idaho on Tuesday, the day the White House said Biden was briefed. Marco Rubio of Florida, the Republican vice-chair of the Senate intelligence committee, was unmoved, telling the same network: “Why didn’t they take action? “The debris field that was created by this balloon which was shot down, it’s about seven miles long.

As a Chinese spy balloon made its way east across the United States last week, a military and diplomatic crisis played out on the ground.

“The balloon never posed a military or physical threat to the American people. officials push back, saying the balloon is clearly used for surveillance and the breach is a clear violation of U.S. The president directs the Pentagon to come up with options to shoot down the balloon as soon as it is safe to do so over U.S. The amphibious ship USS Carter Hall, destroyer USS Oscar Austin and cruiser Philippine Sea are in the area to aid with recovery. He flashes a thumbs up to reporters when asked if the military was going to shoot it down, as he boards Air Force One at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in New York. The Chinese Foreign Ministry releases a statement acknowledging the balloon is Chinese but claims it’s a civilian airship used to collect weather data. The balloon re-enters U.S. This was “straightforward,” a senior administration official said, “because we could track the exact path of the balloon and ensure no activities or sensitive unencrypted comms would be conducted in its vicinity.” Defense officials estimate debris from the balloon, which is the size of three buses, could fall in at least a seven-mile radius. The balloon is first detected over U.S. The balloon is part of a Chinese fleet developed for spying, which over the past few years have been spotted over countries across five continents, including Asia and Europe. officials, all of whom asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the situation.

Defence secretary Lloyd Austin said US fighter jets had on Saturday afternoon shot down the surveillance balloon off the coast of South Carolina in American ...

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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said President Biden authorized the operation to shoot down the balloon.

NASA was also brought it to determine what the debris field may look like when the balloon was shot down, the Biden officials said. Biden directed the military to present options for how to shoot down the balloon immediately. The senior defense official also said that the U.S. The senior defense official told CBS News that the balloon was about six nautical miles off the coast of South Carolina when it was shot down. The military Wednesday then presented options to Mr. Senior Biden administration officials told CBS News that, after the balloon was shot down, the U.S government spoke directly with the Chinese government about the action. Flights resumed shortly after the balloon was taken down. Those Biden officials said the balloon was first detected over Alaska on Jan. airspace on Tuesday, the Biden officials disclosed. Biden told reporters that "we're gonna take care of" the balloon. The balloon was shot down by U.S. After the operation, Mr.

Biden administration takes credit for the safe takedown of the Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic, while Republicans say it should have been done a week ...

The U.S. The airship first entered the U.S. The discovery of the spy balloon comes at a sensitive time for China. U.S. China’s foreign ministry said in a statement that the U.S. he wants to tell the world that China is open for business again. China said the balloon was gathering meteorological data and driven off course by wind currents, sending it over the United States, which the U.S. “Why let it fly across the middle of the country over military bases? Pete Buttigieg, President Joe Biden’s transportation chief, told CNN’s “State of the Union” show that China’s deployment of the balloon was “an unacceptable intrusion on American sovereignty.” But he said the U.S. military, on Biden’s order last Wednesday, shot it down Saturday “without any damage to people or property…after assessment of the risks” of doing it over the U.S. A political partisan divide quickly emerged Sunday over the U.S. The debris from the missile strike on the balloon, which had been drifting at an altitude of more than 18,000 meters (11 miles), landed about 10 kilometers (6 miles) off the shoreline of the southern U.S.

A huge underwater search is now taking place to find the remains of the balloon, which the United States is confident will show the Chinese were lying about ...

They will be able to prove this clearly wasn't a weather balloon". The Blinken visit will go ahead, but maybe in a couple of months or more. The balloon was then seen above Kansas City and later York County, where the sheriff's department had to remind the public to not shoot at it with their own guns: "Your rifle rounds WILL NOT reach it. Although they are sensitive, there is nothing new happening there." "You have an aircraft circling 10,000 feet under the balloon - you are in a position to either jam all the signals it is sending or receiving or to simply suck out of it whatever it has got on it," he added. American aircraft began circling the balloon as soon as it first appeared, and would have been using military equipment "either to download whatever the Chinese had or to interfere with it in some way". What goes up will come down, including your bullets." He said it was likely "somebody in Beijing thought it would be a good idea" in retaliation for America announcing it would reopen military bases in the It is a relic of the Cold War era of spying and a "stunt gone wrong," according to Prof Clarke. The fact the US military was able to shoot the balloon down with a single missile is significant. "It's not beyond the bounds of possibility that the Russians, Chinese, or somebody would have a couple of aircraft up to be nosy and see what was going on." [US](https://news.sky.com/us) successfully [down it with a single missile](https://news.sky.com/story/us-shoots-down-chinese-spy-balloon-off-carolina-coast-12803499) - and what intelligence are they now hoping to find in the wreckage?

U.S. defense officials are working to recover the wreckage of a Chinese balloon downed near South Carolina, as relations between the two countries are ...

But the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Shullman said China is hoping to repair its relationship with the U.S. and flex its power on the world stage. "We watched this thing and its capabilities and then took it down where it was safe and maximally recoverable for [counter-intelligence] purposes. at the very moment it was set to host the country's top diplomat. [said](https://www.state.gov/secretary-blinkens-call-with-peoples-republic-of-china-prc-ccp-central-foreign-affairs-office-director-wang-yi/) he was still prepared to "visit Beijing as soon as conditions allow." airspace scuttled a planned meeting of high-level officials from the U.S. Now the U.S. Authorities said they may use uncrewed underwater vessels that can lift the structure up to the surface and place it on a salvage ship. The balloon's intrusion into U.S. "We don't know exactly all the benefits that will derive. The debris splashed down in 47-foot-deep water, making the recovery effort easier than had been originally expected.

Both the US and China are now accusing each other of violation of international law and threatening repercussions. Mullen said Blinken did the right thing ...

Both the US and China are now accusing each other of violation of international law and threatening repercussions. US officials say the balloon was being used for surveillance while China insists it was a civilian research vessel. He said at the same time there is very well a possibility of the Chinese leadership not knowing about it until it became public. “There's no way that he could have a meaningful visit and we have a host of issues that we need to address. The [US military on Saturday downed the balloon off the coast of South Carolina](https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/us-shoots-down-chinese-spy-balloon-moves-to-recover-debris-2330569-2023-02-05) in the Atlantic Ocean and launched a mission to recover all the equipment from its debris. [By Press Trust of India](/author/press-trust-of-india): The Chinese surveillance balloon that traversed through continental America for a couple of days before being shot down has damaged the already deteriorating US-China relationship, a top former American Admiral said on Sunday.

If you can't get enough of the Chinese balloon saga, turns out there's another sighting in Costa Rica.

"Keep in mind that this is not the first time this has happened. China after all, has the 2nd largest economy next to the U.S. and China have been spying](https://scrippsnews.com/stories/doj-charges-13-chinese-nationals-accused-of-spying/) on each other with modern technologies. "I ordered the Pentagon to shoot it down on Wednesday as soon as possible. Democrats were quick to defend the president. "I want to start by doing something that I don't do very often, which is commending Joe Biden for actually having the guts to shoot this down. While the US has its suspicions, China has continued to claim that the balloon is merely a weather research "airship" that had been blown off course.By Brian Branch via AP That was the right thing to do. The act praised by lawmakers in both parties, including Republican Senator Ted Cruz. territory," said Rep. Unfortunately, he didn't do that until a week after it entered U.S. While the US has its suspicions, China has continued to claim that the balloon is merely a weather research "airship" that had been blown off course.

Recovery of the wreckage could give the United States insight into China's spying capabilities, officials say.

That’s exactly what happened,” US transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg said on CNN’s State of the Union program. Rubio said he doubted that the balloon’s debris would be of much intelligence value. “China firmly opposes and strongly protests against this,” China’s vice foreign minister Xie Feng said in remarks to the US embassy in China on Monday. VanHerck said the incident took place over US territorial waters. “The debris is in 47 feet of water, primarily. We planned for much deeper water,” the official said adding that the wreckage “would have fallen at least in a seven-mile radius”.

The craft, which Beijing says was a meteorological airship blown off course, was shot down in the Atlantic Ocean.

“And that certainly is an urgency that this administration does not recognise.” It then re-entered US airspace over northern Idaho on January 31. The US has said the Chinese balloon was flying over sensitive sites in Montana to collect information, and recovering the remnants could provide the US with clues about China’s surveillance capabilities. The US said earlier that the balloon was about the size of three school buses and that debris was spread out over 11km (7 miles) of ocean. “Our U.S. The United States Navy is working to recover the debris of a Chinese surveillance balloon that fell into the Atlantic Ocean after being shot down off the coast of South Carolina over the weekend.

A successful recovery could potentially give the U.S. insight into China's spying capabilities, though U.S. officials have downplayed the balloon's impact ...

Republican Marco Rubio, vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told the ABC News program “This Week” that China was trying to send a message that it could enter U.S. Rubio said he doubted that the balloon’s debris would be of much intelligence value. “The president called for this to be dealt with in a way that balanced all of the different risks. Navy is working to recover the balloon and its payload and the Coast Guard is providing security for the operation, said General Glen VanHerck, commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Air Force fighter jet on Saturday shot down the balloon off the coast of South Carolina, a week after it first entered U.S. VanHerck said the incident took place over U.S. The U.S. A U.S. Republican Mike Turner, chairman of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, said he believed China was using the balloon to figure out how to counter U.S. “The bottom line here is that shooting down the balloon over water wasn’t just the safest option, but it was the one that maximized our intel gain,” he said at a news conference. Republican lawmakers on Sunday criticized President Joe Biden for waiting days to shoot down the balloon as it floated over the United States, accusing him of showing weakness toward China and initially trying to keep the breach of U.S. [U.S.](http://globalnews.ca/tag/united-states) military said on Sunday it is searching for remnants of the suspected [Chinese surveillance balloon](https://globalnews.ca/tag/chinese-surveillance-balloon) it shot down the previous day, in a dramatic spy saga that has further strained American-Chinese relations.