There has been a big disclosure about the Chinese balloon flying over America. According to reports, these balloons were able to collect information from several military sites and send it to Beijing in real time. NBC News gave information about this on Monday. NBC quoted two senior US officers and a former senior officer as saying these things. Significantly, on February 4, the US shot down a Chinese spy balloon in the Atlantic Ocean off the South Carolina coast. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that this afternoon on the instructions of President Joe Biden, a fighter plane shot down a Chinese spy balloon over the sea off the South Carolina coast in US airspace.
The balloon was equal to three buses
A suspected Chinese spy balloon the size of three buses was spotted in US airspace in late January. NBC News quoted three officials as saying in a report that China was able to control the balloon so that it could send the information it collected to Beijing in real-time. According to the news, the intelligence that China collected was mostly obtained from electronic signals. Three officials said that if the US had not made efforts to stop the information being sent from this balloon, China could have gathered a lot of intelligence from sensitive areas.
look at nuclear weapons
According to the Biden administration, the balloon first entered US airspace from Alaska on January 28. Over the next four days, it flew over Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, where some of America’s nuclear warheads are stored. The development escalated the already ongoing tension between the US and China. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken postponed his visit to Beijing in February.
China said this
In its response, Beijing had said that the balloon belonged to civilian purposes, which deviated from its intended route. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a statement posted on the Chinese Foreign Ministry website that the balloon is from China and is mainly used for meteorological research.
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