The airship was downed by a US fighter jet off South Carolina’s coast on Feb 4. Read more at straitstimes.com.
off South Carolina’s coast on Feb 4, including key sensors presumably used for intelligence gathering.
It also led to the US military scouring the skies for other objects that were not being captured by radar, leading to anThe US military and the Biden administration have acknowledged that much about the most recent, unmanned objects remains unknown, including how they stay aloft, who built them and whether they may have been collecting intelligence.
“They do, however, present a risk to civil aviation and potentially an intelligence collection threat.”
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