Why, yes. That is true.
Why not? They used $1MM cruise missiles to make rubble bounce in Afghanistan.
$400K a pop?
It’s just your hard-earned tax dollars at work protecting you from outer space aliens....nothing to see here.
But hey, it’s better than giving it to the Ukraine to be laundered back to the pedoPIG and his vile spawn....LOL
As Steve Bannon often says “Stolen elections have catastrophic consequences”.
F16 pilot at close range: “That’s not a balloon”.
Fighter pilots are known to have good eyesight!
The Canadians put lots of holes in a balloon some years ago and failed to crash it where they wanted to. Also, the instrument package on this balloon was worth many times the cost of the missile. This article is misleading and misinformed.
SOP for Democrats....the collective memory forgets what Clinton did to keep Monica Lewinsky off the news cycles and how Clinton squandered millions in Cruise missiles to attack a empty pharmaceutical production facility and a tent city.
Trust me, there is video of all the objects before, during, and after they were engaged.
So we’ve spent around two million dollars, for five four hundred thousand dollar missiles, to shoot down four balloons (one required two missiles, from, reportedly four F18s or F22 (they don’t seem to be able to discern the difference), which probably had escorts.
Prolly could have sent a Montana rancher in biplane with .300 mag. Just sayin . . .
Anybody who’s not a far left sycophant or a mindless drone knows this is exactly what is happening.
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“Did Biden use a $400,000 missile to shoot down a balloon”?
This is a military question, not a Biden question.
Biden can’t eat his own oatmeal, he has zero idea what military weapon to use.
Coincidently, that’s the same as his pudding expense account.
Could have used a burst from the on board 20mm canon. Could have used a SAM. Could have used a bow and arrow.
Finally someone is shining the light on the cost of these missiles we’re wasting on these stupid balloons. I’ve been saying this from the beginning there should be a less expensive missile than the sidewinder that can take down a balloon without destroying the entire payload like the sidewinder apparently does.
Plus 10%.
Anybody who watched Top Gun (1986) or Top Gun Maverick (2022) knows its feasible to put a commercial camera in a cockpit to see what the pilot sees. This camera doesn’t have to be a camera that was installed at the time the plane was constructed. The public is familiar with body cams on policeman. Why haven’t videos of the last 3 “objects” been released? The public knows the pentagon and perhaps Biden is hiding something. I think the military and Biden don’t want to admit $400,000 missiles were used to shoot down 3 weather balloons.
“Did Biden Use $400,000 Missiles to Shoot Down Weather Balloons?”
The REAL question should be WHY should a missile first deployed in 1956 cost $400,000.00 EACH?
I know this is an upgraded design, but $400,000.00 apiece?
“The AIM-9 Sidewinder is a short-range air-to-air missile which entered service with the United States Navy in 1956”