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Wonder if the array will be recovered for examination?
The balloon was spotted Saturday morning over the Carolinas as it approached the Atlantic coast. At about 2:40 p.m. EST, an F-22 fighter jet fired a missile at the balloon, puncturing it while it was about 6 nautical miles off the coast near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Pentagon officials said.
Officials said the debris landed in 47 feet of water, shallowed than they had expected. It was not immediately clear how long the recovery would take. The Navy is taking the lead, supported by the Coast Guard.
Take that, F-15!And an F-22 got the kill.
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You do not send a F-15 to clean table 9 from rubbish. It has lesser gods to do that.Take that, F-15!
Give that man a cigar!Aparently, the balloon was just shot down this morning as it passed over the east coast.
Wonder if the array will be recovered for examination?
You do not send a F-15 to clean table 9 from rubbish. It has lesser gods to do that.
The RCAF shot down a rogue weather balloon over New Foundland a few years back.It makes me wonder when the last kill scored against a balloon was in military annals.
Putting my conspiracy theorists head on I think the delay in shooting it down was to ensure that it could be recovered and that it landed in a place where the official story that it was smashed cannot be proved to be wrong.Aparently, the balloon was just shot down this morning as it passed over the east coast.
Wonder if the array will be recovered for examination?
The RCAF shot down a rogue weather balloon over New Foundland a few years back.
The problem the Air Force faced, was several, actually.Putting my conspiracy theorists head on I think the delay in shooting it down was to ensure that it could be recovered and that it landed in a place where the official story that it was smashed cannot be proved to be wrong.
The balloon wasn't inadvertently riding the winds. It was able to maneuver, for example hovering over the ICBM sites in Montana.Seems likely that the plunging Arctic air mass bringing frigid temperatures far south into the US unexpectedly carried the balloon along.
I was going by memory, having read about the issue at the time.Nope. They put a thousand rounds through it, and it made it close to Norway before if came down. Unless you are talking about a different one I don't know about.
When a weather balloon went rogue almost 25 years ago, fighter jets fired 1,000 rounds at it and couldn't bring it down
"With something like this, which is stationary in the air when the CF-18s are flying very, very fast, it is difficult to shoot it," a lieutenant said.news.yahoo.com
To be fair, though, the US and British tried shooting it down too and also failed.