Posted on 02/13/2023 5:12:24 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man
It’s pretty bad when the Pentagon hasn’t a clue about who they are fighting or what the hell they are doing. I don’t think the CIA would be much help. They’re still trying to overthrow President Trump.
RE: It is unclear where the first missile landed.
Try Roswell.
Then deny it happened. For 75 years.
Yes
UFO 🛸🛸🛸 caught it
Will fire it back later
(They actually claimed a missile fired from an F-4 Phantom II did that.
Came back......the next day
🙄🙄🙄
My G_d, we are a mess.
RE: Came back......the next day
With a guy who said “I confess. I shot John F. Kennedy over the hood of his limo. I killed him.”
Why do you think it was a stationary target?
This is the result you get when your military leaders are recruiting based on “woke” criteria.
Pretty cheap considering we spend upwards of a trillion a year on defense.
Read up on the aim9x. Lot of hang for your buck.
Sometimes missiles just go stupid, it happens
I’ll have to find the video
Missile hits a US Navy gunboat
Air-to-air missile.....
Something the size of a small car should not be able to 'disappear' a sidewinder or hang out without any means of propulsion...
Wonder if anyone still flies those ultralights. A tiny plane like that could evade radar and not be scanned properly for missile hits. Plus would have made it a great distance without radar picking it up. Then drop WuHan 2.0 virus.
But cost doesn’t matter when it’s the government and can print all the money needed.
Agreed. A tiny, almost stationary target at FL 20 and up is a long ways from what these missiles were designed to prosecute.
And for those who keep saying use guns: Not feasible in the case of the big balloon because
Punctures in high altitude balloon envelopes have next to no effect on them (because of very little pressure differential between inside and outside the envelope / gas bag). You’d have to remove a whole “panel” of the envelope to get the balloon to descend rapidly. The missile effectively did that.
The F-22 is the only gun-toting delivery platform capable of attaining that altitude (60,000 feet) but the gun would not be effective anyway.
And not feasible in the case of the small, rigid objects because
A Volkswagen-sized object at hundreds of knots closing airspeed differential doesn’t give time to line up the shot and then veer away without possibly hitting the object or debris cloud.
As someone in the comments mentioned, a WW1 biplane with a machine gun would have been a better attack platform (if it could climb to the altitude).
Bang* for your buck. I hate autocorrect as much as I hate proofreading
2 400k$ missiles to shoot down a 1200$ balloon.
You got a better alternative?
To fund illegals, unsustainable “social projects”, green eco nazi funds, election manipulation and outright political grifting.
And 10% off the top for the big guy.
Powered ultralights are picked up easily on area radar. That Rotax or Kohler or whatever motor is like a beacon.
What about paintball? Hit the thing and mark it with a florescent pink paint.
My mistake. Can they stay lower than anyone is detecting objects?
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