{"id":1837162,"date":"2023-02-06T14:04:57","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T19:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1837162"},"modified":"2023-02-06T14:05:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T19:05:24","slug":"u-s-military-reveals-size-of-chinese-spy-balloon-says-it-potentially-carried-explosives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-military-reveals-size-of-chinese-spy-balloon-says-it-potentially-carried-explosives\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Military Reveals Size Of Chinese Spy Balloon, Says It Potentially Carried Explosives"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-military-reveals-size-of-chinese-spy-balloon-says-it-potentially-carried-explosives%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1837162&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>General Glen VanHerck, U.S. Air Force, told reporters Monday that the Chinese spy ball that was downed off South Carolina&#8217;s coast on Saturday could have explosives aboard so that it could self-destruct.<\/p>\n<p>VanHerck, Commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM), stated that the balloon measured up to 200 feet in height and weighed approximately 200 pounds. \u201cin excess of a couple thousand pounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He stated that it could have contained explosives, and officials believed this. \u201cto detonate and destroy the balloon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wow: Northcom Chief Gen. VanHerck said that the balloon reached 200 feet in height and had a payload comparable to a jetliner. It weighed approximately &#8220;in excess of a couple thousand lbs&#8221; Potentially carried explosives &#8221; to detonate and destroy the balloon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lara Seligman (@laraseligman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laraseligman\/status\/1622660712551129091?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This is breaking news; check back often for more updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Air Force General Glen VanHerck told reporters on Monday that the Chinese spy balloon that was shot down off the coast of South Carolina over the weekend was potentially carrying explosives on board so it could self-destruct. The news comes after the U.S. military used an F-22 Raptor on Saturday to take out a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1837165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[17453,15339,4117,17819,4505,5114,9589,6893,7238],"class_list":["post-1837162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-balloon","tag-carried","tag-chinese","tag-explosives","tag-military","tag-reveals","tag-size","tag-spy","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1837165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}