on a lighter note...

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[JimP]

Canada tried that 25 years ago with a weather balloon that went rogue, it didn't work too well.

When a weather balloon went rogue almost 25 years ago, fighter jets fired 1,000 rounds at it and couldn't bring it down

"With something like this, which is stationary in the air when the CF-18s are flying very, very fast, it is difficult to shoot it," a lieutenant said.

news.yahoo.com

The reports are that they used a sidewinder missile which runs around $400,000 US

Pentagon reveals details on how Chinese spy balloon was taken down with single shot

The U.S. military says a single sidewinder missile from an F-22 Raptor shot down a Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina at 2:39 p.m. on Saturday.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Vintageguy]

Perfectly good waste of a $6million dollar Phoenix missile.
They could have given it a short blast of cannon fire for a few hundred bucks.
Also, a cannon burst would have preserved the payload so we could have seen EXACTLY what it was.

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Naughty peasant thinking critically for yourself and questioning the ones calling the shots.
Funny it’s in the ocean rather than a muddy corn field in the Midwest too.

 

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I don’t know what species of tree it is but I’m guessing it has to be some kind of softwood

 

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