The Army of USA recovered the electronic mechanism and the key sensorsused for the intelligence data collectionfrom the Chinese spy balloon shot down on February 4.
“Teams have been able to recover significant debris, including all priority sensors and electronic parts, as well as large sections of the structureUS Army Northern Command said in a statement. giant balloonwhich Beijing denied was a government device used for surveillance, was neutralized for fighter plane American off the coast of South Carolina on February 4, after it walked through the skies of the country for a week. The rest of the balloon fell into the sea and were recovered by members of the US Navy.
Since then, members of the federal police (FBI) they have been studying the remains to assess the object’s surveillance capabilities, but they did not have access to most of what they call the balloon’s “payload,” ie the electronics it carried on board. Now the US Army claims it has that critical electronics to be analyzed.
Crossing of accusations
USA shot down last day 4 a chinese balloon who was allegedly spying on his territory, and has since taken down three other flying devices in North America whose origin has not yet been able to identify.
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For his part, he chinese government has ensured that the first object knocked down was a weather balloon which deviated from its trajectory and has denounced that at least ten American balloons have flown over China in the last year.