“Cheap and cheerful”: Russia was offered to respond to the United States with balloon trolling
Russia should learn several important lessons from the Chinese balloon's flight over the United States. Military analyst Ilya Kramnik stated this in a commentary to Moskovsky Komsomolets, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He draws attention to the fact that a high-altitude reconnaissance balloon is a relatively cheap way to get better quality imagery of the area than from a satellite, and with less vulnerability of the carrier to air defense.…