According to PLA Daily, China’s Military Balloon Program is perfect since balloons are less expensive and easier to control than airplanes or satellites, can carry greater payloads and cover a wider area, and are more difficult to detect, making them a silent killer.
Years before a huge white Chinese spy balloon caught America's eye, a leading Chinese aerospace expert was closely monitoring the course of an unmanned airship traveling across the world.
The white blimp was enormous, weighed many tonnes, and measured 328 feet (100 meters) in length—about 80 feet longer than a Boeing 747-8, one of the biggest passenger aircraft in the world. Despite its size, it only appeared as a blinking red dot on a real-time map.
Wu Zhe, the ship's main architect, said to the official newspaper Nanfang Daily, "Look, here's America." The airship was traveling at roughly 65,000 feet in the air when he pointed to a red line, indicating that the voyage was breaking a world record for 2019.
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