Morning Jolt: What You Need to Know about China’s Unmanned Aircraft Research

On the menu today: The U.S. military is now on a surprisingly regular schedule of shooting down one unidentified flying object over North America per day. Yesterday, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer said that the government believes the second and third objects shot down by U.S. jets were also balloons, but smaller than the first one. A few years back, private-sector military news writers looked at open-source satellite photos and spotted a massive hangar in the western Xinjiang province of China, a site that they concluded "clearly has to do with the development of lighter-than-air craft, which could include large unmanned airship designs capable of operating in the upper reaches of the atmosphere." No one knows exactly where these spy balloons are coming from — but there's a good chance the trail leads back to that mysterious massive hangar and secretive research base out in the middle of the Chinese desert.

China's Spy-Balloon Factory?

Back in July 2021, Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick, the editor and deputy editor of the military-news site The War Zone, offered some little-noticed insight into a massive hangar operated by the Chinese government, and likely the country's military, in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region ...

WITH JIM GERAGHTY February 13 2023 WITH JIM GERAGHTY February 13 2023 What You Need to Know about China's Unmanned Aircraft Research On the menu today: The U.S. military is now on a surprisingly regular schedule of shooting down one unidentified flying object over North America per day. Yesterday, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer said that the government believes the second and third objects shot down by U.S. jets were also balloons, but smaller than the first one. A few years back, private-sector military news writers looked at open-source satellite photos and spotted a massive hangar in the western Xinjiang province of China, a site that they concluded "clearly has to do with the development of lighter-than-air craft, which could include large unmanned airship designs capable of operating in the upper reaches of the atmosphere." No one knows exactly where these spy balloons are coming from — but there's a good chance the trail leads back to that mysterious massive hangar and secretive research base out in the middle of the Chinese desert. China's Spy-Balloon Factory? Back in July 2021, Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick, the editor and deputy editor of the military-news site The War Zone, offered some little-noticed insight into a massive hangar operated by the Chinese government, and likely the country's military, in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region ...   READ MORE

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