Following days of alarm and discussion about how to deal with the surveillance balloon, the US is now racing to recover the wreckage. But what technology do they expect to find?
Crowds lining the shoreline in Myrtle Beach cheered as a missile from an F-22 fighter struck the balloon, which quickly deflated and plummeted to the ocean.
A recovery operation began, including several ships, with the debris landing in relatively shallow water about 14 metres deep. CNN quoted a senior defence official as saying the FBI and other counterintelligence authorities would collaborate on "categorising and assessing the platform itself."The surveillance technology onboard the balloon could prove to be very valuable to US intelligence services.
The surveillance payload underneath the balloon is expected to contain intelligence valuable to the US. He also said that it appeared to have advanced steering technologies informed by artificial intelligence. Technology that is more advanced than anything the US has put into the air, according to Mr Kim.
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