99 Red Spy Balloons: The Chinese Dirigible Debacle (A Report on The Chinese Spy Balloon)
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- čas přidán 8. 02. 2023
- The title speaks for itself. This whole escapade has been hysterical and to be quite honest I don't really have a description in mind. So here we go. Chinese Spy Balloons, The Pentagon, the history of military ballooning. And the utility of an intelligence gathering balloon. The CIA, FSB and MSS are resourceful people.
So here we go, for posterity!
This channel really is the complete package.
/ animarchy
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Oh yeah? thanks for the reminder. And also the reminder that mockery is about the best Americans can expect from the rest of the world. I guess envy works like that.
But how about some of that for China? THey sent it for a reason, they expected results, and then they got caught. Oh my, did the hysteria from THEM make bells ring. Hell, you could so a whole episode on the CCP's OFFICIAL comments on all of this. Talk about trolling disguised as intelligent speech...
Ah, but I don't have to tell you about any of that, do I? :p
Been chillin'.
As a South Carolinian, I don’t know whether to laugh or be mad at your jests towards the South, but I am here for it either way
@@sgtirish5915 Hey, there are yahoos in every state including where I live. We all have to play the cards we’re dealt. Thanks for your service.
Oh, and one other thing (besides wondering why General Flintstone has been covering this up);
Serious in this post, I promise, last one I was trying to get in the spirit of the vid. But it turns out that China has been bragging about using this very balloon type to transport nuclear weapon delivery systems. As it turns out, you were spot-on about how hard these things are to track. I don't know if you see this guy as competition (doubtful) so anyway;
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The Uncontacted Tribes of Myrtle Beach seeing their newly discovered Balloon God being destroyed by an F22 Raptor
Dis is de way.
Does that make the raptor satan?
I live near by Myrtle beach and knowing how some of the locals are that meme had me rolling.
@@JCDFlex No, that makes the Raptor their new God
They could always face south and pray to the heathen God of Florida before it asks someone to hold its beer...... again.
The funniest thing to come out of this is watching people make TikToks about how angry they are about China spying on them
Holy frakking hell..... are you serious?!?
wow
These must be the kind of people who think self-awareness is the ultimate form of aggression.
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Someone did a photo edit showing the tiktok logo on the balloon.
I’m disappointed that there aren’t videos of the balloon being shot down as 99 Luftballons plays in the background
just shows the average human iq is lower than one might think.
If a program to update early warning radars to have their audio warnings voiced by liberty prime is not currently in the works ima be big sad.
Chairman Cheng will fail, China will fall!
PROBABILITY OF RED CHINESE VICTORY: IMPOSSIBLE.
Well the LRDR (SPY-7 Long Range Discrimination Radar) went online in Alaska at Clear AFB in early 2022. Could well be that the reason this balloon was spotted in Alaska while earlier ones were missed is that the LRDR is in operation. Now we just have to build I don't know 40 more of them? No word on a voice pack mod but If I had to guess I'd say the Halo announcer has development priority.
@@LordOceanus too bad most nato equipment doesn't support nexus mods or is even slightly modding compatible, it's the 21st century god damnit
@@ExplizitDuester Yeah its all stuck with Moddb unfortunately.
Let's casually shoot our rifles at a balloon 65k feet in the air when we all know damn well that round aint hittin
if they're aimed properly, there's an award for doing it. Sounds like "Darwin."
@@Norbrookc this next Darwin awards gonna be lit
Not with that attitude.
@AnimarchyHistory my home defense sams dont reach that high
Doesn't get more Merican! *sigh*
Thanks for showing how large the balloon was in comparison to the Statue of Liberty., one of America's traditional units of measurement.
Sadly we don't know how many football fields it is
@@FifingFossildo you no have the magnet on yer frieght with the conversion chart?
@@isaac6077 smh education is slipping
Im a humble eu peasant we still run on the metric system please tell me sire how many m is that
@@Jisttoturn 46 meters for the statue itself, 93 meters from ground level to top of statue.
The fact that that sortie would bankrupt small nations is what makes me proud to be an American.
I mean when you can't afford a doctor or degree, might as well right?
To preempt some people, I'm in the military. Bugger off, you know it's true
I'll bet you voted for Joe Biden, too.
Ok wumao propaganda operators, we aren't buying it. Sure you're military
@@JohnE9999 Cry
@@JohnE9999 Poor Trumper. Funny how THREE balloons weren't a big deal when Trump was in office but when Biden gets in office the right loses their s**t over one. Try getting your news from somewhere other than memes. That might require you to use your brain though.
I, a french man, a citizen of an allied nation to the U.S.A., couldn't go to one of our own beaches in the Atlantic and throw a rock in the sea in the general direction of New York without a CIA agent knowing it.
And people think *no one* noticed a gigantic balloon with a one tonne payload from an *enemy* ?
To be fair Freund we are Euro people they had to either come safe or fight us at one point in time
Meanwhile, the CIA cafeteria can't even serve chicken without properly removing the feathers first.
Did you watch the video?
We the US, learned of this one after others had been detected.
That is completely false!
It would be the NSA tracking you, not the CIA. ;D
Honestly, even if the CIA knew you were throwing rocks toward NYC, they would do nothing. Hell, you could come to NYC & stone most of the city and they’d call you a “mostly peaceful” protestor. 🤷🏻♂️
"This is our territory. Little air show for our fans out there. Flying high. Easy slice." - F22 Raptor from C&C Generals. Such qoutes aged like fine wine.
Don't forget "YEEHAW!"
CHINAAAAAAAAAAA!
@@essexclass8168 "WE'RE GOING DOWN!"
I quote that game all the time still. So many good one liners
@@jima1135 With such iconic lines such as "I'll fire at anything", they are definitely worth quoting
“Who’s that?”
“That’s Gary Powers, he’s a…uhhh…civilian high altitude weather enthusiast?”
“Then why does he have a gun?”
“He’s…a very NAUGHTY civilian high altitude weather enthusiast!”
This is just the 1960 U-2 incident all over again
I’ve been thinking the same thing.
Dude.......uncool
It was embarrassing and funny how a lot of Americans reacted to this. The balloon incident made me realize why the government and military has kept seemingly trivial information secret over the years. It might not be very sensitive or dangerous but we're just too stupid to know about it
It really makes you understand the perspective put forth with regards to keeping secrets from Politicians by Sir Humphrey Appleby in the Yes Minister series.
This information is need to know. You don't need to know every little thing happening
Also was a black pill moment with regards how easy Americans can be duped by psychological warfare. If I was China I'd send another balloon with fake crap attached to it just knowing it will cause division.
@@STG44musikmeister I wouldn't be surprised if that was the point (or to probe how the US military responded, in general). China is shady but they're not stupid. We spy on them and they spy on us
I thought it was strange that they were so obvious about it when they're pretty damn good at espionage and covert activity. It definitely worked if it was meant to get the public riled up
@@lordulberthellblaze6509 "why did you decide that I didnt need to know?"
"I didnt"
"well who did?"
"nobody. It was just that no one decided to tell you"
After hearing my dad rant about how we should have shot it down, typically yelling at the news deal, it's nice to see more light hearted takes on this. Additionally, I'm very glad I got into NCD this week, so that lightens the mood.
Same, NCD is glorious. Easy way to keep up-to date with current military events 😂
The week isn't even over, the BMP-T kill was also nice.
The fact that they probably jammed it and that a soft splashdown makes analysis much easier are pretty good arguments.
Seems like the right call in hindsight.
Although I have to admit, when it was over Montana I hadn't heard these arguments and also thought they should just shoot it down.
Welcome to NCD, I've been subbed for a few weeks and it's glorious.
@@FirstDagger hold up what? Ukraine popped a BMP-T?
I still think it made a lot more sense to shoot it down before it made landfall.
Can’t believe Mobius-1 scored ANOTHER kill
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The “No More Malarkey” Biden image has no right going that hard
It’s funny how the F22 didn’t get its first air to air kill until after the F35 did.
Wait, what was the f35s first kill?
@@destruct0503 an Israeli F35 shot down a uav in March 2021
@@destruct0503 Iranian drones, 2 of them.
Those aren't kills. They're vegan.
The F-35 is his nerdy little brother, bigger brain, larger glasses, good at radar chess just short of being his own AWACS and battlefield controller because he plays lots of strategy games…. but has a single engine, less range, no supercruise and isn’t meant to dogfight if needed. He also carries less payload in non-stealth “beast mode”, if you’ve already knocked out their anti-air and the older beefy cousin, F-15EX isn’t around to being the pain to the dumb school bully mouthing off.
I can’t believe Bloons Tower Defense is so popular that China made it into a real thing
I love the fact that I live in a country that can afford to shoot a specially modified an AIM-9X from a $200 million plane just to pop a balloon.
Honestly should have used machine gun lol
As it turns out due to the altitude the balloon was on, the Rap can't shoot it down with guns as it will take a very long time for the balloon to deflate due to pressure differences between the balloon's gases and that layer of the atmosphere iirc. Thus they had to go smart, they had to go Raytheon smart.
@@ArcturusOTE and they used a missile that probably cost twice as much as the balloon. LOL
@@timothyhouse1622 Balloon isn't expensive, but the payload certainly is.
@@hailexiao2770 doubt it cost more than the missile used to knock it down.
Imagine you chilling in your house, then a 52 foot sized drone attached to a balloon flies through your window. That's why we waited to shoot it down.
I was in the area where they shot it down. I was able to see the F-22 shoot it down from my backyard as soon it was over the ocean. It was an incredible sight.
Yeah I live near Langley. I just thought they were doing exercises again
I can't believe you didn't mention the british Operation Outward during WW2.
It was a highly successful use of chap, free-flying attack balloons aimed against germany and occupied territory.
These ballons came in several variants, with the arguably most successfull being simple steel wires dangeling from the balloon.
They caused considerable damage to germanies power grid.
Thank you for sharing that info! People like you are why I scroll the comment section. Oh and btw this is not me being facetious, I’m totally serious. I love when the information is balanced out and that light is turned on!! The video then takes on an entirely different relevance, or irrelevance, in this case.
Maybe it's a very sophisticated weather balloon with like, a massive gradiometer built in to detect underground weather, and a big telescope for taking infrared pictures of weather.
I stole this from other comment section but its funny
WW1: took a wrong turn.
WW2: not being accepted in art school
WW3: pop the Balloon
Fun fact: NORAD besides being the aerospace recon and defense hub, also doubles as our gateway to many different planets.
One could even say It's our gateway to the stars
19:45 holy fuck i think that must bee the most baadass poster joe have ever and Will ever have made. Bigg propps to the artist.
Hes here to kick ass and eat ice cream and he's all out of ice cream.
I can’t wait for this video to come out.
The Aim-9’s growl is so good
Please tell me that Float Around and Find Out patch is an official thing... I need one, that is priceless. 😂
If those pilots don't get one, I will be highly disappointed
A fun video with good information and a history lesson. Assuming China didn't learn anything of value from this mission seems like underestimating an opponent. The U.S. Navy used blimps for reconaissance until 1959. Between WWI & WWII the U.S. Navy used rigid airships.
The US had been hiding stuff from spy sattelites for years. Those spy balloons aren't getting any new information even if it wasn't getting jammed.
Technically, South Carolina is considered part of the deep South, and many of our brethren did consider how cool it would ve to down a Chinese ballon.
The memes at the end are friggen premium. Great breakdown of the situation.
Too bad you can't use the song without the video getting flagged.
Which song?
@@bobnoneya1267 99 Luftballons by Nena.
Overkill is underrated. 🇺🇸
The faux Cyrillic in the beginning physically hurt
So close to 100k. Big Hugs. Love you and your content! Keep on keeping on!
Another great episode. The music and memes had me on the edge of my seat
I definitely needed this today
Thank you so very much for this video!!!
Appreciate the 99 Red Balloons tune in the background
Fun Fact: Espionage is legal. The US and USSR decriminalized it during the Cold War since they were going to spy on each other regardless of law and breaking the law every time they did so would be awkward.
That’s why the US complaint is that a military aircraft violated their airspace.
ahh the F-15 with the only confirmed plane to satelite kill raised the F-22 to be a balloon poper
What an EPIC video, informative and f**ing funny, in the beginning i though that was a video of Lazerpig and then it come the information, and the twist but still f**ing funny.
Amazing video. Greetings from Santiago of Chile.
Beautiful, just beautiful!
Man, this was an event..
Sidenote hearing my city mentioned by you just makes me feel even weirder about this whole thing. My friend saw the balloon get shot down.
The Chinese clearly checking out Myrtle Beach so they can create multiple copies on the Chinese coast.
As a native South Carolinian, I am both proud and pissed every time Myrtle Beach is mentioned in the media.
It doesnt surprise me that we didnt shoot it down right away, I'm sure we knew about it a long time before it even got here
When you notice the A-10 has more air to air kills then the F-22 and the A-10 is like a slingshot compared to the F-22 thats a anti tank gun technologically wise
A-10 is also as old as a slingshot.
Brilliant, who knew aerial combat could be so hilarious
China when the US shot down the balloon: I swear it’s a weather balloon
USA when the U-2 spy plane got shot down in the USSR: I swear it is a high altitude weather tracker
At that point the USA hadn't commited genocide on a native ethnic minority for over a century!
My man you are so close to 100k subs
99 Luftballoons is a banger.
"LuFt mEaNs rEd" - Luftneck
The fact that you referenced Ya boi Kongming is peak viewing
From here on until WW3 where F22s will no doubt be shredding things to bits, I am refering to them as "baloon poppers".
they will get retired before that 😢
@@jansatamme6521 I too wish WW3 would have come sooner.
Although I doubt the people, who make sure that Ukraine gets precisely just enough military support to reduce the rate of Russian advance to a minimum and to backstop the Ukrainian lines against a catastrophic collapse, while also ensuring that the Russian military doesn't get degraded too much and that the Ukrainian army can't seriously threaten to retake Crimea, (also that they aren't allowed the capability to conduct significant strikes into Russia proper) would ever allow it to happen.
The sexiest plane is a Blackbird? Man of culture I see
I'll disagree- but respectfully, as that is a pretty plane.
But the prettiest is the P-51D, fight me.
Quality analysis. Also god tier memes
12:38 haha you got me, i had to go back 5s to see it bc i missed it slightly at first
This was incredible
Nice job man just got a subscriber
1:30 - I learned of your channel through the podcast you did with LazerPig a couple of weeks ago and I've been watching your videos ever since. Imagine my surprise when I decided to watch a random video of yours while eating lunch and a stupid meme I posted to NCD last month popped up on screen! 😂
amazing
I love you got your LazerPig on today!
Funniest video I've seen in a long time. Thank you.
All that and no "Fox 2!" on the call? Raptor pilot, I am disappoint.
You are amazing.
Honestly when I first heard about the balloon, I just laughed. Because it was honestly the insane cherry topping the chaos milkshake of the 2020’s
Awesome and very funny video! :D
Funniest part was the general public was asked to NOT shoot it down.. lol
I completely agree, the SR-71 is really really sexy.
Also, saturation is the reason why mode C transponders and ADSB is so important.
Best guess for what it was carrying/doing: ground penetrating radar, IR, and HD photos looking for signs of storage, launch, and back-up C&C facilities as well as power infrastructure. Hopefully it didn't have sufficient bandwidth/power to transmit back and was dependant on physical retrieval but i doubt we'll know for a while.
I just realized that you used "99 Luftballons" as your background music, sneaky little historian.
Aww pacman this let my evening end on a perfect note
U are just spoiling us with all these uploads at this point.
I noticed little slip up in your editing. When you said “… and the sexiest aircraft ever seen” you accidentally put a picture of a SR-71 when you clearly were talking about the CAC-27 Avon Sabre 😉
Love your work mate!
Yes
As a pause gang, I feel personally attacked
Another thing to keep in mind is that the orbits of spy sats is OSInt, and that can lead to your enemy doctoring the objective. A balloon can just... Pop up.
11:48 i live in montana......... and ya, im so proud
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montana has a LOT of guns.... but we also have VERY low gun crime (like 95% are suicides....the long winters can get to you)
so we know it was out of range
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however.... it also flew over EVERY silo in montana (which has more silos than any other state)
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idk.... it will be REALLY interesting to know what this (and the, now, 2 others) were actually doing
hopefully they actually tell us.... and not wrap it up in many layers of red tape and classification
TikTokers complaining about the Chinese spy balloons. Ironic
19:53 I like the reference to the F-15 that shot down a satellite
What everybody who's making jokes about it online seems to forget this was a large airborne object with no active navigation or radio transponders on board., Moving through both American and Canadian airspace while it was being tracked
And where exactly would you consider a safe place to shoot down something that weighed about 2000 lb, when you're not one hundred percent sure that area has no one living in the area
Did you hide a synth version of 99 luftballons in this video
As an American, it hurts that you have seemed to nail a "large" portion of our populous in this video.
*populace
For me and my dad, we didn’t think the US KNEW about it ONLY in Montana. We just wondered why it wasn’t dealt with earlier. And we of course asked “why not fire like three 20mm rounds and let it sink to the ground?” We think it was more a statement than any actual useful intelligence. And that statement was “how would the US respond to any incursion” and in that I think we failed both militarily and societally. We showed China we’d be paranoid of everything and that we won’t respond to a threat. Which to be fair it’s a lose lose. Shoot it down right away? We’re paranoid maniacs. Let it go and do what ever it wants? We just bend over.
To be honest the most entertaining part of this is the debate about whether the balloon counts towards ace status.
I dunno, I think you're kinda right on the money there. It's a lose-lose in that any reaction can be spun as a win for China. I think the important part now is trying to do our own analysis back and figuring out what happens next.
@@TheGallantDrake More like the USA saying, "those balloons you think we didn't know about? We knew about them. We let them slide because we can reliably stop you from getting anything out of them. But now public opinion is involved, so we're taking them away. How many of your other "hidden" assets are in the same position?"
So in the late 90s an actual weather balloon went rogue over Canada and started drifting towards Russia. It was decided to shoot it down. The Canadians sent a sortie of 2 CF-18s to take it down with their cannons. Over 1000 rounds were expended to no apparent effect on the balloon.
@@the_real_ch3 should have used incendiary ammunition. (Yeah I know, but still. A missile worth several hundred times as much as balloon itself? Someone should have to come up with a better solution.)
@@ksfirewolf1530 A missile that we'd already paid for, and which was reaching the end of its shelf life.
My friend actually watched this happen IRL and said he could hear the pop and everything shook.
15:58 as a DCS flight sim player..... OMG do i love that "growl"
You do realize that growl wasn't 'real', right?
I mean, some of the old Aim-9s did growl like that, but it doesn't make much sense for a digital, multi-band IR, FPA sensor to growl like that (also remember that the F-22 integration was done a *long* time before its pilots would be equipped with an HMD, so I'd wager that its "tone" would have stayed the same, even when cued via the HMD).
@@mortlet5180 is it possible that they just kept the growl because it's an easy to understand audio cue? (I know the audio probably wasn't real)
Nice use of Liberty Prime!
the missile fields it should be noted that china can just visit them in person. the US is part of a treaty for that exact purpose. they can just ask to see the missiles to ensure the US is within treaty...
Love the anime reference!
I heard about this video from the NAFO "Even Rounder" Podcast.
The F22 Raptor. A stealth aircraft so advanced. That if you build anything more advanced. You probably wouldn't even realise you had built anything.
11:56 unexpected Mr. Regular.
gotta love brother hao's outro song
Hell yea the man has phenomenal taste!!! SR71
Virgin no more, the f-22 displays it's muscles over the fighter mafia once more.
I wouldn't be surprsied if they expected it to get shot down, and to planned on it to give them an excuse to legitiize future actions.
The balloon deployed CHAFF? Why would a weather balloon need chaff Xi???
You just dumbed yourself by making it blatantly obvious as to what you were doing.
Sucks for them it was ir
The chaff fell after the hit. It isn't an IR countermeasure, it's the balloon coming apart. Sorry to *burst your bubble*. I'll see myself out.
that music a the end lowkey slaps
The worst part about this is the demoralization and further degradation in the trust of the military to keep us safe but then again maybe that's a good thing in a way.
Uh no. You don't understand Americans very well
Shows us on the doll where the Chinese balloon hurt you.
I love when Pac Man lapses into Squire's voice.
In what sense was this thing (a) dirigible? Where is the propulsion unit? Prop, jet, rocket or ginormous magnet? Does valving lift gas or dropping ballast, heating or cooling the lift gas constitute propulsion? If so, every balloon ever launched is (a) dirigible to some extent…including the plastic bags with candles I used to launch as a kid.
You had way too much fun making that video. LoL