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The context is that US is developing high altitude balloons for detecting hyper-sonic weapons. Developing a technology and actively using in another country's a
by gre345t34 4y ago
The context is that US is developing high altitude balloons for detecting hyper-sonic weapons. Developing a technology and actively using in another country's airspace are quite different things, so it's not really that surprising that articles don't find it important to include.
- Jabbles 4y agoThey wouldn't tell us if they were, that information would almost certainly be highly classified. Compare the balloons with this technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird#Operational_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird#Opera...