China may be sending balloons over the West for ‘listening’ spy missions, says former RAF chief


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C hina may be using balloons flying over the West for “listening” spy missions, a former RAF chief said on Tuesday. Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Graydon said it was “highly likely” that there is espionage equipment in the balloons being deployed by Beijing. But military experts have been puzzled as to what China has to gain from spying with a balloon rather than using an estimated network of 260 satellites. The former Chief of the Air Staff told LBC Radio: “That’s been sort of exercising my mind, what they are getting from a balloon that they can’t get from...