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"The pilots describe misterious "metallic orbs" flying around"
Yeah they are called silver $50 balloons
Joe
Ordering his airforce to shoot down Amateur Hobby Balloons that cost less than $100 with $400,000 missiles
https://aviationweek.com/defense-spa...shot-down-usaf
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-al ude 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.
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.
The whole planet is laugbing at us and our stupidity
"The pilots describe misterious "metallic orbs" flying around"
Yeah they are called silver $50 balloons
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/cru...cience-project
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
When you have to put that many
Shooting down hobby balloons is serious business tbhWhen you have to put that many
Meh. The jets are already paid for. Not sure what we're shooting down so go ahead and use what we've got.
Oh no, they're using million dollar planes they would have used anyway. Paying for using them to shoot down a ing balloon is no different than paying them to do anything else
Last edited by Trainwreck2100; 02-17-2023 at 05:30 PM.
You're going to vote for Trump a third time and you're trying to tell us what's serious.
Exactly, this is Murica, not Poorussia...
"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/technolog...t-down-sooner/
I mean, you guys need to pick a lane
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