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anon user #3If you don't understand this is bullshyt then you either aren't paying attention or your IQ is below 100. There are other reasons they are doing what they are doing. You don't necessarily know them.
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You are half right. They are not shooting it down because they are gutless libfags.
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If anon loser's IQ was 100 or more, wouldn't he be able to grasp the fairly simple concept of supply and demand?
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If it turned out to be an EMP device what would happen?
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A list of things to think about:
1. The service ceiling on US fighter jets is published as 60K feet, which might almost reach the balloon
2. The ballon may not present enough of a radar return to get a missile lock, or get a missile to detonate.
3. The U2 could reach that altitude but isn't armed.
4. Putting a missile or bullets through the balloon may not be enough to bring it down. Ballons like that are quite large, and filled with helium so they won't explode like the Hindenburg.
5. Doing something that isn't consistent with 1-3 may reveal something about US capabilities we would prefer remain secret.
6. One other possibility is the experimental stuff the US has done with laser weapons. But see #5.
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A list of things to think about:
1. The service ceiling on US fighter jets is published as 60K feet, which might almost reach the balloon
2. The ballon may not present enough of a radar return to get a missile lock, or get a missile to detonate.
3. The U2 could reach that altitude but isn't armed.
4. Putting a missile or bullets through the balloon may not be enough to bring it down. Ballons like that are quite large, and filled with helium so they won't explode like the Hindenburg.
5. Doing something that isn't consistent with 1-3 may reveal something about US capabilities we would prefer remain secret.
6. One other possibility is the experimental stuff the US has done with laser weapons. But see #5.
1) Doesn't matter because you can shoot beyond your ceiling
2) doesn't matter because it moves slow as shyt. Shoot it line of site, no guidance required. You just love to complicate things. Put a missile thru it, it doesn't need to explode. Tear entry and exit wounds in it the size of the missile fins and it comes down. Slowly.
3) Covered above
4) Covered above
5) As someone said, any 7 year old with a powerful enough BB gun can get it done
6) Stop making things so fuqing complicated
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When has our military been right in the past 20 years?
Bunch of liberal pussies pushing maternaty uniforms and woke nonsense.
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RockHardConservativeBiden is weak and useless.
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1) Doesn't matter because you can shoot beyond your ceiling
2) doesn't matter because it moves slow as shyt. Shoot it line of site, no guidance required. You just love to complicate things. Put a missile thru it, it doesn't need to explode. Tear entry and exit wounds in it the size of the missile fins and it comes down. Slowly.
When a weather balloon went rogue almost 25 years ago, fighter jets fired 1,000 rounds at it and couldn't bring it down
Almost 25 years ago, a large runaway weather balloon proved to be quite challenge a for a pair of fighter jets trying to shoot it down, staying in the air even after more than 1,000 rounds were fired at it.
The research balloon was measuring ozone levels above Canada, the Associated Press reported at the time. It went rogue in August 1998, passing across Canada, over the Atlantic Ocean, and through British airspace before entering Iceland's airspace and then drifting northward.
Two Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 fighter aircraft spotted the balloon over Newfoundland and fired more than 1,000 rounds at it. The AP reported that the jets, Canadian variants of the American F/A-18 Hornet, hit the balloon, but rather than popping or exploding and crashing to the earth, it slowly began leaking helium. The big balloon was still in the air.
https://www.businessinsider.com/runaway … ory-2023-2
But thanks for playing, Tom Clancy.
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When a weather balloon went rogue almost 25 years ago, fighter jets fired 1,000 rounds at it and couldn't bring it down
Almost 25 years ago, a large runaway weather balloon proved to be quite challenge a for a pair of fighter jets trying to shoot it down, staying in the air even after more than 1,000 rounds were fired at it.
The research balloon was measuring ozone levels above Canada, the Associated Press reported at the time. It went rogue in August 1998, passing across Canada, over the Atlantic Ocean, and through British airspace before entering Iceland's airspace and then drifting northward.
Two Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 fighter aircraft spotted the balloon over Newfoundland and fired more than 1,000 rounds at it. The AP reported that the jets, Canadian variants of the American F/A-18 Hornet, hit the balloon, but rather than popping or exploding and crashing to the earth, it slowly began leaking helium. The big balloon was still in the air.
https://www.businessinsider.com/runaway … ory-2023-2
But thanks for playing, Tom Clancy.
Royal Canadian Air Force
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Royal Canadian Air Force
25 years ago
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When a weather balloon went rogue almost 25 years ago, fighter jets fired 1,000 rounds at it and couldn't bring it down
Almost 25 years ago, a large runaway weather balloon proved to be quite challenge a for a pair of fighter jets trying to shoot it down, staying in the air even after more than 1,000 rounds were fired at it.
The research balloon was measuring ozone levels above Canada, the Associated Press reported at the time. It went rogue in August 1998, passing across Canada, over the Atlantic Ocean, and through British airspace before entering Iceland's airspace and then drifting northward.
Two Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 fighter aircraft spotted the balloon over Newfoundland and fired more than 1,000 rounds at it. The AP reported that the jets, Canadian variants of the American F/A-18 Hornet, hit the balloon, but rather than popping or exploding and crashing to the earth, it slowly began leaking helium. The big balloon was still in the air.
https://www.businessinsider.com/runaway … ory-2023-2
But thanks for playing, Tom Clancy.
We should immediately shutter the Pentagon if we cant take a balloon out of the sky. What a fool you are.
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anon user #3wrote:
A list of things to think about:
1. The service ceiling on US fighter jets is published as 60K feet, which might almost reach the balloon
2. The ballon may not present enough of a radar return to get a missile lock, or get a missile to detonate.
3. The U2 could reach that altitude but isn't armed.
4. Putting a missile or bullets through the balloon may not be enough to bring it down. Ballons like that are quite large, and filled with helium so they won't explode like the Hindenburg.
5. Doing something that isn't consistent with 1-3 may reveal something about US capabilities we would prefer remain secret.
6. One other possibility is the experimental stuff the US has done with laser weapons. But see #5.
They might also be interested in intercepting communications to and from the balloon.
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Tom Leykis5. Doing something that isn't consistent with 1-3 may reveal something about US capabilities we would prefer remain secret.
You may have a point there. Maybe they have their receivers tuned toward it and are listening to what it's saying.
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I am sure that the Chinese are continuing to transmit and receive from a spy balloon that is all over the world's media.
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This place used to gave some intelligent comments. Now its a tardfest.
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This place used to gave some intelligent comments. Now its a tardfest.
I, for one, am no longer dispensing free intel.
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This would be a great opportunity for the US to display it's power (if it wanted to)
Not by shooting the balloon down but by capturing it, packing it up and sending it back to China in working order. That would be a much larger display of power rather than shooting it.
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This place used to gave some intelligent comments. Now its a tardfest.
Camp idiot used to be about camping and the idiots that did it.
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A list of things to think about:
1. The service ceiling on US fighter jets is published as 60K feet, which might almost reach the balloon
2. The ballon may not present enough of a radar return to get a missile lock, or get a missile to detonate.
3. The U2 could reach that altitude but isn't armed.
4. Putting a missile or bullets through the balloon may not be enough to bring it down. Ballons like that are quite large, and filled with helium so they won't explode like the Hindenburg.
5. Doing something that isn't consistent with 1-3 may reveal something about US capabilities we would prefer remain secret.
6. One other possibility is the experimental stuff the US has done with laser weapons. But see #5.
That wasnt so had was it? Just needed some balls. A week late.
Liberals pwnt again. As usual.
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AusCarFancierwrote:
A list of things to think about:
1. The service ceiling on US fighter jets is published as 60K feet, which might almost reach the balloon
2. The ballon may not present enough of a radar return to get a missile lock, or get a missile to detonate.
3. The U2 could reach that altitude but isn't armed.
4. Putting a missile or bullets through the balloon may not be enough to bring it down. Ballons like that are quite large, and filled with helium so they won't explode like the Hindenburg.
5. Doing something that isn't consistent with 1-3 may reveal something about US capabilities we would prefer remain secret.
6. One other possibility is the experimental stuff the US has done with laser weapons. But see #5.
Wow. Good thing you didn't post that horseshyt while regged, Phildo.
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