U.S. Military Shoots Down Chinese Spy Balloon Over Atlantic Ocean With F-22 Raptor
By Space Coast Daily // February 4, 2023
ABOVE VIDEO: U.S. military shoots down Chinese spy balloon
(FOX NEWS) – The Biden administration is releasing details on how exactly the military effort to shoot down a Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina unfolded.
A senior military official said on Saturday that the Chinese spy balloon was shot down at 2:39 p.m. on Saturday by one air-to-air A9X sidewinder missile fired by an F-22 Raptor that took off from Langley Air Force Base in Virginia.
The aircraft fired the missile at an altitude of 58,000 feet while the balloon was hovering at an altitude of between 60,000 and 65,000 feet.
The balloon was shot down about six nautical miles off the coast off South Carolina and the debris field is said to be roughly seven miles wide.
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