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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by berrytopylus@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

Nobody could have predicted this. I have my doubts even when they call it "spying equipment" or whatever considering Chinese claim it was a meteorological balloon, certainly no doubt they would try to paint those tools as such.

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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 93 points 1 year ago

Reminder that the missile they used to shoot this balloon down cost $400k

[-] Weedian@hexbear.net 61 points 1 year ago
[-] cynetri@midwest.social 40 points 1 year ago

greatest military in the world no doubt

[-] dRLY@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

They love to talk all that shit about "our missiles are so accurate that we can hit a ladybug" or some such level of nonsense. Which all of a sudden goes away every time that it is shown how many more people were killed while trying to get one person.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Turns out they can only hit a ladybug because the heat from the blast fries the bug even if the missile misses by a wide margin

[-] forcequit@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

superior firepower just means more firepower

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