UPDATE - NOTAM over Lake Michigan has been called off. Oh? Did Xi's balloon go into stealth mode?
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Apparently they did:
🛸🤔 “My theory about the airspace closures and intercepts is that the DoD cracked open that first Chinese balloon and found sensory capabilities that really freaked them out, so now they are being hyper-vigilant about any and all radar anomalies.”
Comment: The USAF pilots who intercepted the one shot down over Alaska said the object inferred with their sensors and the object itself was initially undetected by Radar. Apparently the one over Montana has been doing the same, so this does seem a valid theory.
If PLAAF tech is such that even balloons can go undetected by and mess with the electronics on an F-22, that’s an extremely ominous sign for the U.S. in the case of a Taiwan War where the J-20s get deployed…
Would be convenient for someone if we had to bring all our AWACs home to defend the homeland.
We have anti-air missiles that use IR, imaging IR, or electro-optical which do not depend on radar.