[Yo-Yo]

Thank you for the effort you put in. I saw this War Zone article late last night and didn't feel like all of that cut-and-paste work.

I would encourage everyone to also listen to the accompanying YouTube video which has a bit more dialog than Tyler excerpted for the print article.

You really get a sense of how pulverized the payload was after the Sidewinder went off in proximity to it.

[House Atreides]

“ You really get a sense of how pulverized the payload was after the Sidewinder went off in proximity to it. ”
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Monday morning quarterbacking here but I really wish they could have deflated the balloon without blowing up the “payload”. That way the payload could have fallen intact (at least until impact with the water) with its terminal velocity somewhat slowed by the deflated balloon acting as a “streamer”. The payload would then have been easier to locate and the pieces would have been close together at the bottom.

I don’t want to think that destruction of the payload was INTENTIONAL but that is a possibility,

[smokingfrog]