{"id":52553,"date":"2023-06-29T17:03:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T17:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/chinese-balloon-that-us-shot-down-was-crammed-with-american-hardware\/"},"modified":"2023-06-29T17:03:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T17:03:09","slug":"chinese-balloon-that-us-shot-down-was-crammed-with-american-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/chinese-balloon-that-us-shot-down-was-crammed-with-american-hardware\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese balloon that US shot down was ‘crammed’ with American hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been months since “spy balloon” fever gripped the United States, but the headline-grabbing flying object \u2013 alleged to have been deployed by China \u2013 is back in the news. Preliminary findings from the US inspection of its wreckage show a whole bunch of commercially available hardware made in the States.<\/p>\n

That in and of itself isn’t new info \u2013 US officials were briefed<\/a> in February, shortly after the balloon, shot down off the eastern coast of the US, was recovered, and were told it contained western-made parts with English writing on them.<\/p>\n

What is<\/em> new is the extent to which the balloon was driven by US hardware, which unnamed sources told<\/a> the Wall Street Journal<\/em> was “crammed” with off-the-shelf components that could have easily been purchased online.<\/p>\n