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Re:The US Air Force may have shot down an amateur radio pico... by pigbearpig on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @11:24PM (#34814999)
Seems like the US Air Force got it pretty right to me. They were instructed to shoot down the unidentified flying object and they did.
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Re:The US Air Force may have shot down an amateur radio pico... by Kon-Peki on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:02AM (#34815262)
Yeah, they did a spectacular job of distracting the media so the Navy could grab the important bits of the actual spy balloon without being hounded. Making a bunch of hoo-rah never-been-in-the-military-but-I'm-really-tough Congressfolk look bad is just icing on the cake.
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