How high-tech spy balloons became so popular for aerial surveillance

Military curiosity in balloon surveillance had been rising even earlier than a Chinese-launched balloon wandered throughout the continental US

By Jeremy Hsu

Surveillance balloons are having a second – even past the current Chinese spy balloon fiasco.

The US and UK militaries are more and more funding tasks to construct high-tech surveillance balloons that function at practically 20 kilometres up within the air. And although Chinese officers have mentioned that the balloon on the centre of the current incident was a weather-monitoring balloon and never a spy balloon, China has additionally been placing a larger deal with surveillance balloons.

“You can match much more surveillance capability on a …