A balloon would be a cheap and efficient platform to deploy energy intensive quantum sensors which could pinpoint underground installations such as Minuteman missile silos or bunkers in Cheyenne Mountain. Also the lower orbit allows greater radio transmission collection and location detection.
An investigation into accusations that a Chinese surveillance balloon had been flying over key American locations fnf while in US airspace was announced by China on Friday. This development further exacerbated already fragile relations between Beijing and Washington.
The assumption that the Fed will use more aggressive rate hikes to combat the worst inflation in nearly 40 years has squardle driven the dollar up nearly 7% over the past year, to its highest level since March 2020.