(Washington Reuters) The Washington Post quotes foreign intelligence institutions outside the US intelligence agency, saying that the Chinese spy balls shot down in February this year are equipped with solar panels, which is enough for a radar that can generate images through the cloud layer at night.electricity.
The document says that the solar panel of the spy balloon can produce up to 10,000 watts of electricity, which is enough to drive a complex monitoring system called "synthetic aperture radar".This radar can be transmitted back to the image in the evening, and it can also penetrate the cloud layer and thin materials such as waterproof cloth to shoot the covered objects.
A spy balloon also has a 1.2 -meter -diameter arc device, multiple inductive sensors, and an object that may be mast antenna.Detailed description of the leakage document of the spy ball monitoring ability belongs to the National Geographic Intelligence Agency.This document was leaked from the Massachusetts Air Force National Guard personnel to the chat platform Discord.
21 -year -old Tesbera was charged with illegal replication and transmission confidential information on Washington on Friday (April 14).Reuters asked the US Department of Defense to comment on the above reports of the Washington Post, and the other party refused to respond.
The Chinese spy balloon referred to in the document flew over the United States in January and February this year, which caused a stir between China and the United States, causing damage to the relationship between the two countries.On February 4, the United States fired a fighter and shot off the spy ballon outside South Carolina.