EMP and the Chinese balloon

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That feeling one gets when they tell you it's raining, but it smells like urine.

China balloon: US shoots down airship over Atlantic

'The US has shot down a giant Chinese balloon that it says has been spying on key military sites
across America. The Department of Defence confirmed its fighter jets brought down the balloon
over US territorial waters.


'How dare you do this in your own air space?!'

China's foreign ministry later expressed "strong dissatisfaction and protest against the US's use of
force to attack civilian unmanned aircraft". Footage on US TV networks showed the balloon falling
to the sea after a small explosion.

An F-22 jet fighter engaged the high-altitude balloon with one missile - an AIM-9X Sidewinder - and
it went down about six nautical miles off the US coast at 14:39 EST (19:39 GMT), a defence official
told reporters.

Defence officials told US media the debris landed in 47ft (14m) of water - shallower than they had
expected - near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The military is now trying to recover debris which is
spread over seven miles (11km). Two naval ships, including one with a heavy crane for recovery,
are in the area...'

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