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hater
02-17-2023, 07:22 AM
:lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao

Joe :lmao

Ordering his airforce to shoot down Amateur Hobby Balloons that cost less than $100 with $400,000 missiles :lmao :lmao :lmao

https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/hobby-clubs-missing-balloon-feared-shot-down-usaf

:lmao


A group of hobbyists in Illinois fears that one of its small “pico” balloons may have been shot down by an American fighter jet thousands of feet over Canada, possibly mistaken as a hostile aircraft after a Chinese high-altitude balloon entered US airspace without permission last month.

The object was fired upon with an AIM-9X Sidewinder missile, costing taxpayers a minimum of $472,000. :lmao :lmao

While Scientific Balloon Solutions founder Ron Meadows, an expert on pico balloons, attempted to inform the government that it had likely shot down a cheap device used by hobbyists for fun, he said officials were not listening.

“I tried contacting our military and the FBI – and just got the runaround – to try to enlighten them on what a lot of these things probably are. And they’re going to look not too intelligent to be shooting them down,” Meadows told Aviation Week.



:lmao :lmao holee sheet



The whole planet is laugbing at us and our stupidity :lmao

hater
02-17-2023, 07:23 AM
"The pilots describe misterious "metallic orbs" flying around"


Yeah they are called silver $50 balloons :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao

hater
02-17-2023, 08:58 AM
Biden authorized $200 million fighter jet to shoot down $12 science project
Small pico balloons typically range between $12 and $180 while an F-22 Raptor is estimated to be around $200 million

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cruz-responds-biden-authorized-200-million-fighter-jet-shoot-science-project


:lmao

hater
02-17-2023, 08:59 AM
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1626349900798492675


:lmao

MultiTroll
02-17-2023, 10:42 AM
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pgardn
02-17-2023, 10:58 AM
Putin has sent 200,000 "soldiers" to their death or severe maiming and hater is worried about tests in the US.

Today's humanitarian.
"World Peace" hater

Leetonidas
02-17-2023, 11:01 AM
When you have to put that many :lmao emojis in your own post, it's probably not funny tbh

Winehole23
02-17-2023, 11:18 AM
https://media.tenor.com/tPX8KluMeswAAAAd/simpsons-halloween.gif

SnakeBoy
02-17-2023, 12:34 PM
When you have to put that many :lmao emojis in your own post, it's probably not funny tbh

Shooting down hobby balloons is serious business tbh

SpursforSix
02-17-2023, 12:42 PM
Meh. The jets are already paid for. Not sure what we're shooting down so go ahead and use what we've got.

Trainwreck2100
02-17-2023, 05:19 PM
Oh no, they're using million dollar planes they would have used anyway. Paying for using them to shoot down a fucking balloon is no different than paying them to do anything else

ChumpDumper
02-17-2023, 06:00 PM
Shooting down hobby balloons is serious business tbh

You're going to vote for Trump a third time and you're trying to tell us what's serious.

ElNono
02-18-2023, 08:28 AM
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:lmao

ElNono
02-18-2023, 08:28 AM
Oh no, they're using million dollar planes they would have used anyway. Paying for using them to shoot down a fucking balloon is no different than paying them to do anything else

Exactly, this is Murica, not Poorussia...

Blake
02-18-2023, 02:04 PM
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1626349900798492675


:lmao

"Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said on Sunday that President Biden should have ordered the suspected Chinese spy balloon shot down sooner than Saturday.

“I want to start by doing something that I don’t do very often, which is commending Joe Biden for actually having the guts to shoot this down,” Cruz told Margaret Brennan on CBS’s “Face the Nation. “That was the right thing to do. That is absolutely what the president should have done. Unfortunately, he didn’t do that until a week after it entered us airspace.”

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3844406-cruz-says-chinese-balloon-should-have-been-shot-down-sooner/

I mean, you guys need to pick a lane

SnakeBoy
02-22-2023, 03:10 PM
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