US Shoots Down Object Over Alaska

[Loggerdude]

Their not going to tell any lies I'm sure. Why not recover these things instead of blowing them up. Heavy D could do it

 

[dustbag]

My guess is all this is a distraction. The house finally grew some balls and is investigating a lot of different prominent individuals and companies.

 

[HARPERC]

Remember when Rumsfield said there was 3 trillion dollars missing? Then the twin towers come down...

3 Towers-2planes

 

[HARPERC]

Holy !! Another object was just sighted over Canada! Are these appearing out a portal? Or our detection capability P poor? Scary we cannot detect these until "maybe too late"? Launch 1,000 with whatever payload, low tech poof!

Some of the low tech "solutions" have proven fairly effective in recent conflicts.

 

[wdrjr]

Like classified documents at a garage sale? Classic redirect.

Kansas City Shuffle.

 

[3chester]

Remington has these TSS Tungsten turkey loads on their website about $74.99 for a box of 5 , which is pretty steep but, nearly tolerable if ya get a nice wild turkey, in the oven, for $15 bucks. These yard sale style balloon takedowns with a $400K dollar Sidewinder missile, F-22's on standby, pretty tough on the budget. Gonna have to pass these cost over runs along back to china, just to stay keep an even tab.

 

[std7mag]

Yeah, cost to get & operate a F16 and have it squirt about $3,000 worth of 20mm Vulcan vs a $216,000,000 F22 and now 3 Sidewinders at $300,000 each.

And a 3rd balloon shootdown over Canada, again an F22 with a Sidewinder.

 

[comfisherman]

Yeah, cost to get & operate a F16 and have it squirt about $3,000 worth of 20mm Vulcan vs a $216,000,000 F22 and now 3 Sidewinders at $300,000 each.

And a 3rd balloon shootdown over Canada, again an F22 with a Sidewinder.

This is a fair question. Why sidewinder vs the 20mm....

 

[3chester]

This is a fair question. Why sidewinder vs the 20mm....

Think the F-22 was at 58,000 elevation possibly near it's max and the balloon was even higher elevation orbit

 

[DoneNOut]

This is a fair question. Why sidewinder vs the 20mm....

Supposedly a balloon like these can be riddled like swiss cheese and still stay afloat. The sidewinder had some frag tip that exploded big tears in it.

 

[Muddyboots]

So we now know one of the missing balloons.

 

[Handymike]

Miike