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andoesq t1_j8277n4 wrote

Reply to comment by OmarLittleFinger in US officials disclosed new details about the balloon's capabilities. Here's what we know | CNN Politics by taci7c0ff33

I dunno, I saw in that article the referred to doing U2 flybys...

Which is a spy plane from 1954.

I guess absurd is relative? The US spies on an absurd Chinese balloon with (absurdly) a 1954 plane?

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SomeDEGuy t1_j82locf wrote

New models from 80s, with an upgrade a decade ago.

We have a limited number of planes that can do flybys at extremely high altitude.

Plus, if we did have a secret plane that could do it, we'd not want to reveal that and just use a u2, sinces it's flight performance is fairly well known.

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