According to reports, observers have detected surveillance airships across five continents. Which are reportedly operate in part by the PLA (People’s Liberation Army) air force.
Days after the US military shot down a Chinese surveillance craft hovering above vital assets in the country, a media source claimed that China had operated a fleet of spy balloons targeting numerous nations, including India and Japan.
Indian officials have informed by US officials about the discovery of the Chinese surveillance balloon. That was down by a fighter jet off the coast of South Carolina on Saturday in the Atlantic Ocean.
Wendy Sherman, the deputy secretary of state, informed representatives from approximately 40 embassies about it on Monday.
“The surveillance balloon effort, which has operated for several years partly out of Hainan province off China’s south coast, has collected information on military assets in countries and areas of emerging strategic interest to China including Japan, India, Vietnam, Taiwan and the Philippines,” The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
These surveillance airships, which the PLA (People’s Liberation Army) air force operates in part, have reportedly detected across five continents, according to officials, the newspaper stated.
“These balloons are all part of a PRC ( People’s Republic of China) fleet of balloons developed to conduct surveillance operations, which also violated the sovereignty of other countries,” a senior defence official was quoted as saying.
In addition to the one recorded last week. At least four balloons have reportedly seen above Hawaii, Florida, Texas, and Guam in recent years.
Three of the four occurrences occurred within the Trump administration. But the Chinese surveillance airships were only just discover, it said. The high-altitude surveillance balloon was recover on Tuesday, according to a sequence of images supplied by the Pentagon.