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more than 10 US balloons detected
Why are countries using balloons in the first place? Surely satellites are a bit more reliable, better quality and more 'secret' than a balloon wafting along...
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Sometimes countries (i.e. security services of those countries) just want to keep testing each other? Or they just want to piss them off? Some of the security services still see it all as a big game? (edited, as these were all just suggestions really - the last one, not so much)
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Cost. A high altitude balloon with sensors on would cost a fraction of a satellite I expect
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What I don't understand is why go public with this. Are we supposed to believe that this isn't standard procedure among global powers? Didn't we in the west get basically real time images of the secret Uighur prisons in China, of the new government and military constructions in the deserts, of the nuclear sites and increase in nuclear armament? China has announced today that there has been more than 10 US balloons detected so far this year in their airspace, which to be fair is probably true.
Unless it's more cold war style US propaganda I don't get it