A Chinese spy balloon that flew over the United States earlier this year before being shot down did not collect information as it went across the country, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
We shot it down right? So they probably looked at the hardware. Antenna, processor and other hardware design. Should be pretty easy to reverse engineer it’s capabilities and flight path. At that point you’d know if it was close enough to monitor whatever military base.
“We investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing”
How can they say this? What are they basing it on? The article literally just has the quote of
How did they assess that?
We shot it down right? So they probably looked at the hardware. Antenna, processor and other hardware design. Should be pretty easy to reverse engineer it’s capabilities and flight path. At that point you’d know if it was close enough to monitor whatever military base.
Yeah it’s going to be largely conjectural.